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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11240 Ahmed Elsayed
Rania Roushdy
Empowering Women under Social Constraints: Evidence from a Field Intervention in Rural Egypt
Women in the MENA region are economically and socially disempowered. High youth unemployment rates together with discriminatory social norms drive them to limit their investment in human capital. We ...
(published as 'Empowering women in conservative settings: evidence from an intervention in rural Egypt' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1287–1322 )
I25, J24, O12
11239 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Rachel Brulé
Sanchari Roy
Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India
We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146 (C), 102275)
O12, K11, I21
11238 Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren
Banu Ergöçmen
Aysit Tansel
Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey: Conflicting or Compatible Roles?
The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration, especially for developing countries where the micro and macro evidence fails to ...
(published as "Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey: The Emergence of Role Incompatibility' in: Demographic Research, 2018, 39(46), 1241-1290)
C41, J13, J16
11237 Richard Blundell
Luigi Pistaferri
Itay Saporta-Eksten
Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance
We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate spouses' time to work, leisure, and childcare. In an environment with ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (S1), S73 - S115)
J22
11235 Peter Rupert
Giulio Zanella
Grandchildren and Their Grandparents' Labor Supply
Working-age grandparents supply large amounts of child care, an observation that raises the question of how having grandchildren affects grandparents' own labor supply. Exploiting the unique ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 159, 89 - 103)
D19, J13, J14, J22
11234 Jesper Alex-Petersen
Petter Lundborg
Dan-Olof Rooth
Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform
We examine the long-term impact of a policy that introduced free and nutritious school lunches in Swedish primary schools. For this purpose, we use historical data on the gradual implementation of ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (2), 876-908)
I12, I38, J24
11233 Kashi Kafle
Dean Jolliffe
Alex Winter-Nelson
Do Different Types of Assets Have Differential Effects on Child Education? Evidence from Tanzania
This analysis is motivated by recognition that anti-poverty interventions often affect both the level and composition of assets held by beneficiaries. To assess the conventional view that assets ...
(published in: World Development, 2018, 109, 14 - 28)
I25, J22, D13, O12
11231 Jared Ashworth
V. Joseph Hotz
Arnaud Maurel
Tyler Ransom
Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences
This paper investigates the wage returns to schooling and actual early work experiences, and how these returns have changed over the past twenty years. Using the NLSY surveys, we develop and estimate ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 931 - 964)
C33, J22, J24, I21, I26
11230 Dan Zeltzer
Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap
In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians' preference for working with specialists of the same gender. By analyzing administrative ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (2), 169-197)
I11, J16, L14
11229 Christian Grund
Axel Minten
Nevena Toporova
The Motivation of Temporary Agency Workers: An Empirical Analysis
We are investigating the relationship between individual and job-related characteristics and the motivation of temporary agency workers. To do so, we are using a unique dataset from one of Germany's ...
(revised version published as 'Motivation assessments of temporary agency workers - an empirical analysis based on appraisals compiled by hiring companies' in: management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, 2019, 30, 5-39)
J5, J81, M5
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