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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
14776 Amit Loewenthal
Sami H. Miaari
Alexei Abrahams
How Civilian Attitudes Respond to the State's Violence: Lessons from the Israel- Gaza Conflict
States, in their conflicts with militant groups embedded in civilian populations, often resort to policies of collective punishment to erode civilian support for the militants. We attempt to evaluate ...
(published in: Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2023, 40 (4), 441 - 463)
D72, D74, H56, J21, J45
14774 Lisa A. Cameron
Xin Meng
Dandan Zhang
Does Being 'Left–Behind' in Childhood Lead To Criminality in Adulthood? Evidence from Data on Rural-Urban Migrants and Prison Inmates in China
Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million children being left-behind in rural villages when their parents migrate to the cities. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, 675 - 693)
O12, O15, J12
14771 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Ding Sai
Comparing Receipt of Social Assistance in Urban and Rural China and the Role of Ethnicity
Dibao receipt in rural and in urban areas of China is contrasted using household data from seven province-level units. The probability of Dibao-receipt is positively related to how many persons in ...
(published in: China: An International Journal (CIJ), 2022, 20 (3), 122 - 139 )
I38, J15, P36
14769 Erik Hornung
Guido Schwerdt
Maurizio Strazzeri
Religious Practice and Student Performance: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 100-119)
I21, Z12, J24, O15
14767 Sam Desiere
Bart Cockx
How Effective Are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium
Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2022, 12(1) )
H22, J08, J18, J23, J38, J64, J65, J68
14766 Hai-Anh H Dang
Trong-Anh Trinh
Paolo Verme
Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey
Hardly any evidence currently exists on the causal effects of mental illness on refugee labor market outcomes. We offer the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (12), 2819-2835)
I15, J15, J21, J61, O15
14765 Roel M. W. J. Beetsma
Oliwia Komada
Krzysztof Makarski
Joanna Tyrowicz
The Political (In)Stability of Funded Social Security
We analyze the political stability of funded social security. Using a stylized theoretical framework we study the mechanisms behind governments capturing social security assets in order to lower ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2021, 133, 104237)
H55, D72, E17, E27
14762 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Andrew Leigh
"Beauty Too Rich for Use": Billionaires' Assets and Attractiveness
We examine how the net worth of billionaires relates to their looks, as rated by 16 people of different gender and ethnicity. Surprisingly, their financial assets are unrelated to their beauty; nor ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 73, 102153)
J24, J40, C24
14761 Oded Stark
Wiktor Budzinski
A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare
The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2021, 74 (4), 552 - 566)
C43, D01, D31, D63, I31, P46
14760 Micheline Goedhuys
Michael Grimm
Aline Meysonnat
Eleonora Nillesen
Ann-Kristin Reitmann
Measuring Youth Empowerment: An Illustration Using the Example of Tunisia
Youth empowerment, i.e., the ability of young people to take control over key aspects of their lives, has become a growing concern to achieving sustainable development worldwide. An increasing number ...
(published as 'Measuring youth empowerment: An application to Tunisia' in: Journal of International Development, 2024, 36 (4), 1945-1964)
C43, D91, D39, J13
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