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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8046 Christophe Jalil Nordman
Julia Vaillant
Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar
We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur ...
(Non-technical version published as 'Entreprenariat informel et genre à Madagascar : le rôle des normes de solidarité et des responsabilités domestiques dans les écarts de performances' in: Mondes en Développement, 2014, 42 (2), 166, 59-72)
D13, D61, O12, J16
8045 Nick Drydakis
Effect of Sexual Orientation on Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Greece
This study investigates the differences in four aspects of job satisfaction between gay men/lesbians and heterosexuals. The analysis results suggest that gay men and lesbians are less satisfied with ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2015, 54(1), 162-187)
J28, C93, J7, J16, J31, J42, J64, J71
8044 S Anukriti
The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives
Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (2), 27-57)
D1, J13, J16, I15
8043 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes
Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form ...
(revised version published as 'Does Grief Transfer across Generations? Bereavements during Pregnancy and Child Outcomes' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 193 - 223)
I1, I2, J1
8042 Michael Grimm
Carole Treibich
Why Do Some Motorbike Riders Wear a Helmet and Others Don't? Evidence from Delhi, India
We focus on helmet use behavior among motorbike users in Delhi. We use a detailed data set collected for the purpose of the study. To guide our empirical analysis, we rely on a simple model in which ...
(published in: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2016, 88, 318-336.)
D10, I10, I15, K42, R41
8041 Maurice Schiff
Can US Coordination Failure Explain Why Americans Work So Much More than Europeans?
Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that ...
(published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (9), 1708-1717)
D70, J22
8039 Aslan Zorlu
Clara H. Mulder
Ruben van Gaalen
Ethnic Disparities in the Transition to Home Ownership
This paper examines ethnic disparities in the transition to home ownership using longitudinal register data from the Netherlands. The study performs a discrete duration model to account for ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2014, 26, 151-163)
R21
8038 Kusum Mundra
Amarendra Sharma
Housing Adequacy Gap for Minorities and Immigrants in the U.S.: Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey
Home adequacy for different groups in the U.S. has not been adequately studied. Using the data from the national level American Housing Survey for the year 2009and logit model, this paper finds that ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Research, 2015,24 (1), 2015, 55-72.)
R2, J15
8037 Irene Mosca
Alan Barrett
The Impact of Adult Child Emigration on the Mental Health of Older Parents
A growing literature within economics has sought to examine the impacts of emigration on sending countries. Some of the studies have looked within families and have investigated how emigration ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (3), 687-719)
I15, J61
8036 Ali T. Akarca
Aysit Tansel
Impact of Internal Migration on Political Participation in Turkey
During last sixty years, Turkish population moved from one province to another at the rate of about 7-8 percent per five-year interval. As a consequence of this massive internal migration, population ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (1).)
D72, J61
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