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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7457 Daniel L. Millimet
Manan Roy
Partial Identification of the Long-Run Causal Effect of Food Security on Child Health
Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about how these issues are intertwined. Here, we assess the causal relationship between ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 83-141)
C14, C21, I12, I32
7456 Briggs Depew
Peter Norlander
Todd A. Sorensen
Flight of the H-1B: Inter-Firm Mobility and Return Migration Patterns for Skilled Guest Workers
Critics of the H-1B program for high-skilled workers argue that the program restricts immigrant job mobility and lacks a vehicle for adjusting the number of visas during a recession. We study the job ...
(published as "Inter-firm mobility and return migration patterns of skilled guest workers" in Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (2), 681-721)
F22, J42, E32
7454 Jesper Bagger
Javier A. Birchenall
Hani Mansour
Sergio Urzua
Education, Birth Order, and Family Size
We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent ...
(published in Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (633), 33-69)
E20, E24, D52
7453 Daniel L. Millimet
Rusty Tchernis
Anthropometric Mobility During Childhood
While childhood obesity has become a significant public health concern over the last few decades, knowledge concerning the origins of or persistence in childhood anthropometric measures is ...
(published as 'Persistence in Body Mass Index in a Recent Cohort of US Children' in: Economics an Human Biology, 2015, 17, 157-176)
C23, I12, I18
7452 Felix FitzRoy
Michael A. Nolan
Max F. Steinhardt
David Ulph
Testing the Tunnel Effect: Comparison, Age and Happiness in UK and German Panels
In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s, and negative effects for those over 45. In the BHPS these coefficients ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3, 24.)
D10, I31, J10
7451 John Roy
Stefanie Schurer
Getting Stuck in the Blues: Persistence of Mental Health Problems in Australia
Do episodes of mental health problems cause future mental health problems, and if yes, how strong are these dynamics? We quantify the degree of persistence in mental health problems using ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22(9), 1139-1157.)
I14, C23
7450 Rulof Burger
Servaas van der Berg
Dieter von Fintel
The Unintended Consequences of Education Policies on South African Participation and Unemployment
In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce the large number of over-age learners in the school system: schools were no longer ...
(published in: SAJE South African Journal of Economics, 2015, 83 (1), 74-100)
J21, I25, J64
7449 Matthias Doepke
Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration
Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation ...
(published in: Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2013, 12(4), 375-391)
D63, D64, J10, J47, J80
7448 Laurent Gobillon
Peter Rupert
Etienne Wasmer
Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets
The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 79, 108-120)
J15, J61, R23
7446 Ana C. Dammert
Jose C. Galdo
Child Labor Variation by Type of Respondent: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study
This study uses a nationally representative survey to analyze a key survey design decision in child labor measurement: self-reporting versus proxy interviewing. The child/proxy disagreement affects ...
(published in: World Development, 2013, 51(11), 207-220)
C81, J13, J22, O15
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