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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10657 Luca Gambetti
Julián Messina
Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America
Examines the evolution of the cyclicality of real wages and employment in four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, (323), 709-726.)
E24
10656 Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Sergio Firpo
Julián Messina
Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012
The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10 ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (1), 37-67)
D31, J31
10655 David McKenzie
How Effective Are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Jobs are the number one policy concern of policymakers in many countries. The global financial crisis, rising demographic pressures, high unemployment rates, and concerns over automation all make it ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2017, 32(2), 127-54)
O15, J08, J68
10653 Melisa Bubonya
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
David C. Ribar
The Bilateral Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Employment Status
This paper analyzes the bilateral relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status. We find that severe depressive symptoms are partially a consequence of economic inactivity. The ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 35, 96-106 )
J01, J64, I14
10652 Kamila Cygan-Rehm
Daniel Kühnle
Michael Oberfichtner
Bounding the Causal Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health: Nonparametric Evidence from Four Countries
An important, yet unsettled, question in public health policy is the extent to which unemployment causally impacts mental health. The recent literature yields varying findings, which are likely due ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2018, 26(12), 1844-1861)
I12, J64
10651 Silvia Mendolia
Thi Nguyen
Oleg Yerokhin
The Impact of Parental Health on Children's Schooling and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from Vietnam
This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and labour market, using a panel data survey of Vietnamese families, interviewed between ...
(published as 'The impact of parental illness on children’s schooling and labour force participation: evidence from Vietnam' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 17, 469 - 492)
I10, I14, I24
10650 Hyuncheol Bryant Kim
Suejin Lee
Wilfredo Lim
Knowing Is Not Half the Battle: Impacts of the National Health Screening Program in Korea
Health screening provides information on disease risk and diagnosis, but whether this promotes health is unclear. We estimate the impacts of the National Health Screening Program in Korea for ...
(published in:: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 65, 1 - 14)
I12, I18
10649 Charles Courtemanche
James Marton
Benjamin Ukert
Aaron Yelowitz
Daniela Zapata
Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Risky Health Behaviors, and Self-Assessed Health
The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2018, 84 (3), 660 - 691)
I12, I13, I18
10648 Martin Huber
Andreas Steinmayr
A Framework for Separating Individual Treatment Effects from Spillover, Interaction, and General Equilibrium Effects
This paper suggests a causal framework for disentangling individual level treatment effects and interference effects, i.e., general equilibrium, spillover, or interaction effects related to treatment ...
(pusblished in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2021, 39 (2), 422 - 436)
C21, C31
10647 Zhuan Pei
Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Hannes Schwandt
Poorly Measured Confounders Are More Useful on the Left Than on the Right
Researchers frequently test identifying assumptions in regression based research designs (which include instrumental variables or difference-in-differences models) by adding additional control ...
(published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2019, 37 (2), 205 - 216)
C31, C52
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