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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6622 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan Pozo
Remittances and Portfolio Values: An Inquiry Using Spanish Immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Americas
Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values. This behavior suggests that immigrants are sophisticated economic optimizers who ...
(published in: World Development, 2013, 41, 83-95. )
F24, F22
6621 Anna D'Souza
Dean Jolliffe
Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households
Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. ...
(published in: Food Policy, 2013, 42, 32-47)
D12, I3, O12
6620 Thomas Markussen
Ernesto Reuben
Jean-Robert Tyran
Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (574), F163-F195)
D72, J33, H41
6619 Emilia Del Bono
Chiara D. Pronzato
Does Breastfeeding Support at Work Help Mothers and Employers at the Same Time?
This paper asks whether the availability of breastfeeding facilities at the workplace helps to reconcile breastfeeding and work commitments. Using data from the 2005 UK Infant Feeding Survey, we ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (1), 88-115.)
J13, C26
6618 M. Hashem Pesaran
Ron P. Smith
Counterfactual Analysis in Macroeconometrics: An Empirical Investigation into the Effects of Quantitative Easing
This paper is concerned with ex ante and ex post counterfactual analyses in the case of macroeconometric applications where a single unit is observed before and after a given policy intervention. It ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2016, 70 (2), 262-280)
C18, C54, E65
6617 Pablo Ibarrarán
Laura Ripani
Bibiana Taboada
Juan Miguel Villa
Brígida García
Life Skills, Employability and Training for Disadvantaged Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Design
This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican youth training program Juventud y Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:10)
J24, J64, O15, O17
6616 Deniz Karao?lan
Cagla Okten
Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey: Is There an Added or a Discouraged Worker Effect?
This article analyzes married women's labor supply responses to their husbands' job loss (added worker effect) and worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that ...
(published as 'Labor-Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey' in: Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, 2015, 51 (1), 274-290 )
J21, J60
6613 Gordon B. Dahl
Lance John Lochner
The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (5), 1927-1956)
I2, I3
6611 Volker Grossmann
David Stadelmann
Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration: International Evidence
This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level such that the wage rate of skilled workers may rise in host countries and ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2013, 27 (2), 297-319)
F22, O30
6610 Volker Grossmann
David Stadelmann
Does High-Skilled Migration Affect Publicly Financed Investments?
This paper analyzes the interaction between migration of high-skilled labor and publicly financed investment. We develop a theoretical model with multiple, ex ante identical jurisdictions where ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2012, 20 (5), 944-959.)
F22, H40
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