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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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9487
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David
McKenzie
Nabila
Assaf
Ana
Paula
Cusolito
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The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen
This paper evaluates a youth internship program in the Republic of Yemen that provided firms with a 50 percent subsidy to hire recent graduates of universities and vocational schools. The first round ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 5:1, 2016)
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O12, O15, J08, J16
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9486
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Manisha
Shah
Bryce
Millett Steinberg
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Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India
We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare programs in the world, on human capital investment. Since NREGS increases labor ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (2) 380-405; )
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O12, I2, I38, J1
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9485
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Ashwini
Deshpande
Deepti
Goel
Shantanu
Khanna
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Bad Karma or Discrimination? Male-Female Wage Gaps among Salaried Workers in India
We use nationally representative data from the Employment-Unemployment Surveys in 1999-2000 and 2009-10 to explore gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the ...
(published in: World Development, 2018, 102, 331-344)
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J31, J71, O53
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9484
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Milena
Nikolova
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Minding the Happiness Gap: Political Institutions and Perceived Quality of Life in Transition
Along with political and economic changes, the fall of the socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union brought about fundamental institutional reforms. Several studies ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 45 (Suppl.), 129 - 148)
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D02, E02, I31, P20
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9483
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Hans
Bloemen
Stefan
Hochguertel
Jochem
Zweerink
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Job Loss, Firm?Level Heterogeneity and Mortality: Evidence from Administrative Data
This paper estimates the effect of job loss on mortality for older male workers with strong labor force attachment. Using Dutch administrative data, we find that job loss due to sudden firm closure ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 59, 78-90)
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C21, I10, J63
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9482
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Xi
Chen
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Old-Age Pension and Intergenerational Living Arrangements
China launched a pension program for rural residents in 2009, now covering more than 300 million Chinese. This program offers a unique setting for studying the ageing population, given the rapidity ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (2), 455-476)
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H55, I38, J14, J22
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9480
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Alan
I.
Barreca
Olivier
Deschenes
Melanie
Guldi
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Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates
Dynamic adjustments could be a useful strategy for mitigating the costs of acute environmental shocks when timing is not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could ...
(published as 'Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates ' in: Demography, 2018, 55 (4), 1269-1293. )
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I12, J13, Q54
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9479
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Pedro
Carneiro
Italo
Lopez Garcia
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Emma
Tominey
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Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income
We extend the standard intergenerational mobility literature by modelling individual outcomes as a function of the whole history of parental income, using data from Norway. We find that, conditional ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (3), 757 - 788)
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J24, E24
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9478
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Benjamin
Elsner
Ingo
E.
Isphording
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Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime
In this paper we show that a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort is an important determinant of engaging in risky behaviors. Using longitudinal data from representative US high schools, ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(2), 356-381)
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I12, I14, I21, I24
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9477
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Mathias
Kuepie
Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
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Where Does Education Pay Off in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Two Cities of the Republic of Congo
Using first-hand data from the 2009 Employment and Informal Sector Survey (EESIC) in the two largest cities of the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire, we analyse the impact of education ...
(published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2016, 44 (1), 1-27)
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J24, J31, O12
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