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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
15821 Umair Ali
Jessica H. Brown
Chris M. Herbst
Secure Communities as Immigration Enforcement: How Secure Is the Child Care Market?
Immigrants comprise nearly 20% of the child care workforce in the U.S. This paper studies the impact of a major immigration enforcement policy, Secure Communities (SC), on the structure and ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 233, 105101)
J13, J15, J21, K39
15818 Alan Sanchez
Marta Favara
Margaret Sheridan
Jere R. Behrman
How Early Nutrition and Foundational Cognitive Skills Interconnect? Evidence from Two Developing Countries
While the long-term consequences of early stunting on educational attainment and on school achievement tests are well-known, there is scarce evidence about the specific mechanisms through which early ...
(published as 'Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries' in: World Development, 2024, 176, 106480)
I15, I25, J24
15816 Alexander Libman
Olga Popova
Children of Communism: The Former Party Membership and Demand for Redistribution
The paper looks at the persistence of egalitarian norms in post-Communist societies by focusing on the former members of the Communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia and their ...
(revised version published in: Eastern European Economics, 2023, 61 (3), 199-237)
D31, I30, N00, P36, P52
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