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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10098 Karolina Goraus-Tanska
Piotr Lewandowski
Minimum Wage Violation in Central and Eastern Europe
Minimum wages continue to be at the centre of the policy debates in both developed and emerging economies. Such policies can only be effective if (1) the existing regulatory system does not have gaps ...
(published in: International Labour Review, 2019, 158(2), 297-336)
J08, J31, J38
10094 Julie Christensen
Darius Onul
Prakarsh Singh
Impact of Ethnic Civil Conflict on Migration of Skilled Labor
We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration (Bang and Mitra, 2013). We develop a simple conceptual framework that predicts contrasting ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2018, 44, 18-29)
J1, F2, O1
10091 Seth Gershenson
Michael S. Hayes
Short-Run Externalities of Civic Unrest: Evidence from Ferguson, Missouri
We document externalities of the civic unrest experienced in Ferguson, MO following the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Difference-in-differences and synthetic control method estimates ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18 (3), 663-685.)
I2, R00
10090 Kirill Borissov
Stefano Bosi
Thai Ha-Huy
Leonor Modesto
Inequality and Growth: The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills
We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's ...
(published as 'Heterogeneous human capital, inequality and growth: The role of patience and skills' in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2020 (4), 399-419)
J24, O15, O40
10089 Paul Bingley
Lorenzo Cappellari
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality
This paper studies the influence of family, schools and neighborhoods on life-cycle earnings inequality. We develop an earnings dynamics model linking brothers, schoolmates and teenage parish ...
(revised version published as 'Family, Community and Long-Term Socioeconomic Inequality: Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers' in: Economic Journal, 2020, 131 (636), 1515 -1554)
D31, J62
10087 Artjoms Ivlevs
Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents' Subjective Well-being in Europe
While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents' quality of life, little is known about how residents' well-being is affected by actual ...
(published in: Journal of Travel Research, 2017, 56 (5), 599-612)
L83, Z3
10086 Tanika Chakraborty
Rajshri Jayaraman
School Feeding and Learning Achievement: Evidence from India's Midday Meal Program
We study the effect of the world's largest school feeding program on children's learning outcomes. Staggered implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 319, 249 - 265)
I21, I25, O12
10085 Prakarsh Singh
Learning and Behavioral Spillovers of Nutritional Information
This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three groups, a treatment group, a neighboring spillover group, and a non-adjacent pure ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6), 911 - 931)
D62, D83, I15, I18, I38
10084 Prakarsh Singh
Sandip Mitra
Performance Pay and Malnutrition
We carry out a randomized controlled experiment in West Bengal, India to test three separate performance pay treatments in the public health sector. Performance is judged on improvements in child ...
(published as 'Incentives, Information and Malnutrition: Evidence from an experiment in India' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 93, 24-46.)
M52, I12, I38, J38
10083 Prakarsh Singh
William A. Masters
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India
This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 55, 219 - 231)
O1, I1, M5
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