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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
10082 Kasey Buckles
Melanie Guldi
Worth the Wait? The Effect of Early Term Birth on Maternal and Infant Health
Early term birth is defined as birth at 37 or 38 weeks gestation. While infants born early term are not considered premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2017, 36 (4), 748 - 772)
J13, I18
10080 Daiji Kawaguchi
Ayako Kondo
Keiji Saito
Researchers' Career Transitions over the Life Cycle
Based on a unique time-use survey of academic researchers in Japan, this study finds that research time decreases over the life cycle. The decrease in total hours worked and the increase in time ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 190 (3), 1435-1454.)
J22, J24, J44
10079 Thomas Breda
Melina Hillion
Teaching Accreditation Exams Reveal Grading Biases Favor Women in Male-Dominated Disciplines in France
Discrimination against women is seen as one of the possible causes behind their underrepresentation in certain STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects. We show that this is ...
(published in: Science Magazine, 2016, 353 (6298), 474 - 478)
I23, J16
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