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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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7467
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry
Kangoye
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Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland
Drawing on the 2007 and 2010 Swaziland Labor Force Surveys, this paper provides first systematic evidence on recent youth employment challenges in Swaziland, a small, land-locked, middle-income ...
(published in: M. A. Malo and D. Sciulli (eds.), Disadvantaged Workers: Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies, AIEL Series in Labour Economics, Springer, 2014)
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J11, J08, L26, O11
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7466
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Ren
Mu
Alan
de Brauw
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Migration and Young Child Nutrition: Evidence from Rural China
The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28, 631-657)
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I1, J6, O1
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7465
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Michael
Grossman
Erdal
Tekin
Roy
Wada
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Food Prices and Body Fatness among Youths
In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) measures derived from bioelectrical impedance ...
(revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2014, 12, 4-19)
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I1, I18
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7464
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Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
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Trust, Growth and Well-being: New Evidence and Policy Implications
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The ...
(published in: S.N. Durlauf and P. Aghion (eds.): Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol.2 , 2014, 49-120)
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O11, O43, Z13
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7463
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Ian
Davidoff
Andrew
Leigh
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How Do Stamp Duties Affect the Housing Market?
Land transfer taxes are a substantial portion of the cost of moving house in many developed countries. Since stamp duties are endogenous with respect to the house price, we create an instrumental ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (286), 396-410)
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H22, H24, H71, R21, R23, R28
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7462
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Emma
Tominey
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Maternity Leave and the Responsiveness of Female Labor Supply to a Household Shock
Female labor supply can insure households against shocks to paternal employment. The paper estimates whether the female labor supply response to a paternal employment shock differs by eligibility to ...
(published as 'Female labour supply and household employment shocks: Maternity leave as an insurance mechanism' in: European Economic Review, 2016, 87, 256-271)
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I30, J13, J20, J64
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7461
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Francesco
Pastore
Sarosh
Sattar
Erwin
R.
Tiongson
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Gender Differences in Earnings and Labor Supply in Early Career: Evidence from Kosovo's School-to-Work Transition Survey
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:5 )
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I21, J13, J15, J16, J24, J31, J7, P30
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7460
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
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Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an effective policy tool to improve long-term employment and income prospects of ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (6), 1108-1134)
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J68, R11, C14, H43, L26
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7459
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Matthias
Doepke
Fabrizio
Zilibotti
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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship ...
(published in: Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2, 1-48, December 2013)
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J20, O10, O40
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7458
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Randolph
Luca
Bruno
Nauro
F.
Campos
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Reexamining the Conditional Effect of Foreign Direct Investment
The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the ...
(published in: Multinational Business Review, 2018, 26 (2), 126-144)
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C83, F23, O12
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