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7162 Biwei Su
Almas Heshmati
Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China
This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and ...
(published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2013, 2(1), 1-29.)
O15, O18, D31, D63, C31
7161 Abdurrahman B. Aydemir
Murat Güray Kirdar
Quasi-Experimental Impact Estimates of Immigrant Labor Supply Shocks: The Role of Treatment and Comparison Group Matching and Relative Skill Composition
This paper examines the employment effects of a large burst of immigration – the politically-driven exodus of ethnic Turks from Bulgaria into Turkey in 1989. In some locations, the rise in the labor ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 98, 282-315)
J21, J61
7157 Timothy J. Halliday
Unemployment and Mortality: Evidence from the PSID
In this paper, we use the death file from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the relationship between county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2014, 113, 15-22)
I0, I12, J1
7156 Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn
The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 86-92)
N30, P0, Z1
7155 Paolo Brunori
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Vito Peragine
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons
Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international ...
(published in: Eva Paus (ed.), Getting Development Right, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
D71, D91, I32
7153 Leonardo Becchetti
Riccardo Massari
Paolo Naticchioni
The Drivers of Happiness Inequality: Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion
This paper identifies and quantifies the contribution of a set of covariates in affecting levels and over time changes of happiness inequality. Using a decomposition methodology based on RIF ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66(2), 419-442)
I31, I28, J17, J21, J28
7151 Sascha O. Becker
Ludger Woessmann
Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 539-544)
Z12, N33
7150 David Autor
David Dorn
Gordon H. Hanson
The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (6), 2121-68)
F16, H53, J23, J31
7149 Huu Chi Nguyen
Christophe Jalil Nordman
François Roubaud
Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam
In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the VHLSS ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2013, 49 (12), 1694-1710)
J21, J23, J24, J31, O17
7148 Sebastian Fehrler
Wojtek Przepiorka
Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts
It has been shown that psychological predispositions to benefit others can motivate human cooperation and the evolution of such social preferences can be explained with kin or multi-level selection ...
(published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, 2013, 34, 139-145)
C72, C92, H41
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