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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8231 Francisca M. Antman
Spousal Employment and Intra-Household Bargaining Power
This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2014 21(6), 560-563)
J12, J16, D13, O15
8230 Ang Sun
Yaohui Zhao
Divorce, Abortion and Children's Sex Ratio: The Impact of Divorce Reform in China
This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120, 53-69)
D13, J12, J13, J16
8229 Kamila Cygan-Rehm
Regina T. Riphahn
Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany: Patterns and Developments
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46(28), 3503-3522)
J13, Z18, I00
8228 Guglielmo Barone
Alessio D'Ignazio
Guido de Blasio
Paolo Naticchioni
Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and Politics: The Role of Immigration in Shaping Natives' Political Preferences
We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find that immigration generates a sizable causal increase in votes for the centre-right ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 136, 1-14)
D72, P16, J61
8227 Li Hao
Daniel Houser
Lei Mao
Marie Claire Villeval
A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness
Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk, ambiguity, and competitiveness. Our subjects include migrants and non-migrants. We find ...
(Revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131, 126-140)
C93, D03, D63, J61
8226 Ilhom Abdulloev
Ira N. Gang
Myeong-Su Yun
Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation
Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – ...
(published in: European Journal of Development Research, 2014, 26 (4), 509–526 )
J01, J16, O15
8225 Alina Botezat
Friedhelm Pfeiffer
The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-being of Children Left Behind: Initial Evidence from Romania
Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of ...
(published as 'The Impact of labour migration on left-behind children's educational and psychosocial outcomes: Evidence from Romania' in: Population, Space and Place 2020, 26 (1), e2277)
I12, I21, J13
8224 David J. Bjerk
Caleb Mason
The Market for Mules: Risk and Compensation of Cross-Border Drug Couriers
This paper uses a unique dataset to examine the economics of cross-border drug smuggling. Our results reveal that loads are generally quite large (median 30 kg), but with substantial variance within ...
(published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2014, 39, 58-72.)
K42
8223 Donald O. Parsons
Job Displacement Insurance: An Overview
Earnings losses from permanent job separations are a serious threat to the financial security of long-tenured workers. Job displacement insurance is presumably designed to offset these losses, but ...
(published in: J. Wright (ed.): International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, 12. Oxford, 819-832)
J65, J41, J33, J08
8222 Daniele Checchi
Herman G. van de Werfhorst
Educational Policies and Income Inequality
In this paper we study the associations between educational policies, distributions of educational attainments and income distributions. By matching inequality measures on test scores, years of ...
(published in Socio-Economic Review, 2018, 16 (1), 137 - 160)
I24, I28
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