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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
15841 Shruti Sengupta
Mehtabul Azam
The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Marriage and Fertility: Evidence from Indian Census
Using a district-level panel constructed from five waves of decennial Indian censuses covering 1971-2011, we examine the medium-term (1991-2001) and long-term (1991-2011) impacts of the 1991 Indian ...
(published online in: Oxford Economic Papers, 15 November 2024)
J12, J13, O12
15839 Xin Zhang
Xun Zhang
Yuehua Liu
Xintong Zhao
Xi Chen
The Morbidity Costs of Air Pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China
This study is one of the first investigating the causal evidence of the morbidity costs of fine particulates (PM2.5) for all age cohorts in a developing country, using individual-level health ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 1269–1292)
Q51, Q53, I11, I31
15838 Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel
Daniel Rosenblum
Estimating the Effects of Expanding Ultrasound Use on Sex Selection in India
The liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s led to an unprecedented increase in the availability of prenatal ultrasound technology. In this paper, we analyze the differential spread of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (4), 516-532)
J13, J16, O1
15837 John Chiwuzulum Odozi
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria: A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2023, 6 (4), 297-309.)
D31, I32, O15, O10
15835 Kusum Mundra
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
In Need of a Roof: Pandemic and Housing Vulnerability
Housing is a basic need and is intricately connected to a household's health and wellness. The current pandemic has exposed the housing vulnerability for certain subgroups of the population and ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2024, 7, 27 - 44)
R2, R3, J10, I31
15829 Stephen B. Billings
Noah Braun
Daniel Jones
Ying Shi
Disparate Racial Impacts of Shelby County v. Holder on Voter Turnout
In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), the Supreme Court struck down a core provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) that enabled federal electoral oversight in select jurisdictions. We study whether ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 230, 105047)
D72, J15, K16
15828 Younghwan Song
Jia Gao
Do Fathers Have Son Preference in the United States? Evidence from Paternal Subjective Well-Being
Using data drawn from 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines the existence of son preference among fathers in the U.S. by estimating the effect of child ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 1083-1117)
J13, J16, I31
15827 Hai-Anh H Dang
Peter F. Lanjouw
Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross-Sections
Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 85 (3), 599-622.)
C53, D31, I32, O15
15826 Sarah Frohnweiler
Bernd Beber
Cara Ebert
Information Frictions, Belief Updating and Internal Migration: Evidence from Ghana and Uganda
Information frictions about the benefits of migration can lead to inefficient migration choices. We study the effects of a randomly assigned information treatment about regional income differentials ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171, 103311)
J31, J68, O15
15822 Farzana Afridi
Amrita Dhillon
Sanchari Roy
The Gendered Crisis: Livelihoods and Mental Well-Being in India during COVID-19
This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2023, 29 (3), 40–74. )
J16, J22, J23
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