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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13298 Kashif Mansoor
Donal O'Neill
Minimum Wage Compliance and Household Welfare: An Analysis of over 1500 Minimum Wages
Minimum wages are increasingly being used in developing countries as a policy to combat exploitation of workers and raise living standards. However, in many developing countries there is a ...
(published in: World Development, 2021, 147, 105653)
J38, O15
13297 Olivier B. Bargain
Ulugbek Aminjonov
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Poverty and COVID-19 in Developing Countries
In March 2020, shelter-in-place and social-distancing policies have been enforced or recommended all over the world to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. However, strict containment is hardly achievable in ...
(published as 'Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America' in: World Development, 2021, 142, 105422)
E71, H12, I12, I18, O15
13295 Arnab K. Basu
Tsenguunjav Byambasuren
Nancy H. Chau
Neha Khanna
Cooking Fuel Choice, Indoor Air Quality and Child Mortality in India
Indoor air pollution (IAP)–predominantly from the use of solid fuel for cooking–is a global health threat, particularly for women and young children, and one of the leading causes of infant deaths ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 222, 240-265)
I18, N35, Q53
13293 Nikos Askitas
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Bertrand Verheyden
Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19
We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic ...
(published in: Nature Journal: Scientific Reports , 2021, 11, 1972, (appeared also in CEPR's: Covid Economics: Vetted and Real Time Papers, 2020, 23))
I12, I18, C23
13292 Lanlin Ding
Andrew M. Jones
Peng Nie
Ex Ante Inequality of Opportunity in Health among the Elderly in China: A Distributional Decomposition Analysis of Biomarkers
We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60+ and decompose the contributions of different sets of circumstances. Data are ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (4), 922-950)
D63, I12, I14
13291 Adam Tyner
Seth Gershenson
Conceptualizing Grade Inflation
Evidence of grade inflation in U.S. high schools is often misinterpreted due to confusion about how grade inflation is, or should be, defined. This note clarifies the implications of recent research ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102037)
I26, Q54
13290 Antonio M. Bento
Noah Miller
Mehreen Mookerjee
Edson Severnini
A Unifying Approach to Measuring Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
We develop a unifying approach to estimating climate impacts and adaptation, and apply it to study the impact of climate change on local air pollution. Economic agents are usually constrained when ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 121, 102843)
Q53, Q54, C51
13289 Alex Bryson
Heather Joshi
Bożena Wielgoszewska
David Wilkinson
A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain
After shrinking dramatically during World War Two the gender wage gap (GWG) narrowed again in the early 1970s due to the Equal Pay Act. The GWG has closed across birth cohorts at all points in the ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (4), 836-854 )
J16, J2, J3
13288 Nicolas Herault
Guyonne Kalb
Understanding the Rising Trend in Female Labour Force Participation
Female labour force participation has increased tremendously since World War II in developed countries. Prior research provides piecemeal evidence identifying some drivers of change but largely fails ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2022, 43 (4), 341-363.)
H31, J22, J31
13283 Tymon Sloczynski
Interpreting OLS Estimands When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous: Smaller Groups Get Larger Weights
Applied work often studies the effect of a binary variable ("treatment") using linear models with additive effects. I study the interpretation of the OLS estimands in such models when treatment ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (3), 501–509)
C21, C31
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