This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; the non-cognitive measures of i... Section: Discussion Papers
by Jessica Leight | On 01 Jun 2018 Despite the resultant disutility, some people, in particular, the poor, are engaged in
behaviors that carry social stigma. Empirical studies on stigmatized behavior are rare,
largely due to the form... Section: Discussion Papers
by Xi Chen | On 01 Mar 2018 This paper explores the co-evolution of entrepreneurship and cities. First, it provides a stylized model of development wherein the rise of cities (urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of en... Section: Discussion Papers
by Wim Naudé | On 01 Dec 2017 Recent debates of basic income (BI) proposals shine a useful spotlight on the challenges that traditional forms of income support are increasingly facing, and highlight gaps in social provisions that... Section: Discussion Papers
by James Browne | On 01 Dec 2017 The paper uses 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini c... Section: Discussion Papers
by Qingjie Xia | On 01 Nov 2017 The paper uses a six-year panel of 6,500 students at three international schools in a major city in north China to estimate how fluctuation in ambient PM2.5 over the preceding fortnight impacts daily... Section: Discussion Papers
by Haoming Liu | On 01 Nov 2017 In 2013, the Government of Indonesia conducted one of the largest information interventions in history, in an attempt to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KP... Section: Discussion Papers
by Achmad Tohari | On 01 Nov 2017 Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? The paper examines a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a “culture of... Section: Discussion Papers
by Gil S. Epstein | On 01 Nov 2017 Digitalization is the buzzword under which profound changes of the labor market can be summarized. Next to automation, i.e., the increasing use of robots, “intelligent” machines and more comprehensive... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Werner Eichhorst | On 01 Nov 2017 Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. The paper overcomes this limitation by using panel data on... Section: Discussion Papers
by Shuangqi Wu | On 01 Nov 2017 This paper examines the effects of the 2008–09 global economic crisis on people’s pro-environmental behaviour and willingness to pay for climate change mitigation. The paper hypothesise that the crisi... Section: Discussion Papers
by Artjoms Ivlevs | On 01 Nov 2017 This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor in... Section: Discussion Papers
by Peng Zhang | On 01 Nov 2017 This paper examines how skills are shaped by social interactions in families. The paper shows that older siblings causally affect younger sibling’s education choices and early career earnings. The pap... Section: Discussion Papers
by Juanna Schrøter Joensen | On 01 Nov 2017 The paper evaluates a Finish student financing reform which created substantial financial incentives for on-time graduation, and had the side effect of turning expected nominal interest rates on stude... Section: Discussion Papers
by Ulla Hämäläinen | On 01 Nov 2017 This paper examines the effect of occupational engagement and work intensity on the weight of urban working women and men in India. Using nationally representative data, a variety of specifications th... Section: Discussion Papers
by Archana Dang | On 01 Oct 2017 Unconditional basic income, or a job guarantee by government as employer-of-last-resort, are usually discussed as alternative policies, though the first does not provide the benefits of an earned inco... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Felix FitzRoy | On 01 Sep 2017 Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, the paper examines the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian households over 1993-2004 and 2004-2011 (2004-2011). The paper finds mobility est... Section: Discussion Papers
by Mehtabul Azam | On 01 Oct 2016 This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment the U.S. Granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether t... Section: Discussion Papers
by Liqiu Zhao | On 01 Oct 2016 A large literature attempts to identify factors that contribute to gender differences in performance and in the decision to compete. We exploit a highly competitive environment in which elite-female a... Section: Working Papers
by Erica G. Birk | On 01 Sep 2016 The paper examines vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and ea... Section: Discussion Papers
by Ira N. Gang | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. C... Section: Discussion Papers
by Utteeyo Dasgupta | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper examines the impact of micro-credit on employment. Household-level data was collected, following a quasi-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared:... Section: Discussion Papers
by Azhar Kahn | On 01 Jul 2016 The rapid growth and high levels of internationalization by Chinese firms, raise a natural interest in the study of the factors which have led the notable international presence of Chinese firms. In t... Section: Discussion Papers
by Zhao Chen | On 01 Jul 2016 People benefit from being perceived as trustworthy. Examples include sellers trying to attract buyers, or candidates in elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange ga... Section: Discussion Papers
by Sebastian Fehrler | On 01 Jun 2016 In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social... Section: Discussion Papers
by Michal Bauer | On 01 Jun 2016 This paper models an opposition group’s choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predict... Section: Discussion Papers
by Michael Jetter | On 01 Jun 2016 Do ruling parties positively discriminate in favour of their own constituencies in allocating public resources? If they do, do they gain electorally in engaging in such a practice? This paper tests wh... Section: Discussion Papers
by Subhasish Dey | On 01 Jun 2016 In this paper investigates the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument that well functioning credit markets would ref... Section: Discussion Papers
by Sumon Kumar Bhaumik | On 01 Jun 2016 This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development b... Section: Discussion Papers
by James J. Heckman | On 01 Jun 2016 The paper finds a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and life expectancy in a panel dataset of 197 countries over 213 years. By itself, GDP/capita explains more th... Section: Discussion Papers
by Michael Jetter | On 01 Jun 2016 This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data a... Section: Discussion Papers
by Xin Zhang | On 01 Jun 2016 The paper investigates the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in China. Using precise measures of each worker’s daily output linked to dai... Section: Discussion Papers
by Tom Chang | On 01 Jun 2016 This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel data for the period 1997-2004, when the country underwent economic reforms leading... Section: Discussion Papers
by Janneke Pieters | On 01 Jun 2016 Indian government launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance scheme, in 2008 that provides cashless health services to poor households in India. The scheme is eval... Section: Discussion Papers
by Mehtabul Azam | On 01 Jun 2016 This paper makes use of the most recent social pension reform in rural China to examine whether receipt of the pension payment equips adult children of pensioners to migrate. Employing a regression di... Section: Discussion Papers
by Xi Chen | On 01 Jun 2016 This pper reviews major approaches and findings on the evaluation of the impact of different labour market institutions but pays particular attention to active labour market policies that play an impo... Section: Discussion Papers
by Werner Eichhorst | On 01 May 2016 This paper provides a novel justification for a declining time profile of unemployment benefits that does not rely on moral hazard or consumption-smoothing considerations. It considers a simple search... Section: Discussion Papers
by Tomer Blumkin | On 01 May 2016 This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous... Section: Discussion Papers
by Alexander M. Danzer | On 01 May 2016 This paper proposes an overlapping generations multi-sector model of the labor market for developing countries with three heterogeneities – heterogeneity within self-employment, heterogeneity in abili... Section: Discussion Papers
by Arnab K. Basu | On 01 May 2016 The paper examine the link between a mother’s autonomy – the freedom and ability to think, express, act and make decisions independently – and the nutritional status of her children. There is a desig... Section: Discussion Papers
by Wiji Arulampalam | On 01 Feb 2016 We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most importan... Section: Discussion Papers
by Milena Nikolova | On 01 Jan 2016 We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness score... Section: Discussion Papers
by M. Niaz Asadullah | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed... Section: Discussion Papers
by Rafael Dix-Carneiro | On 01 Jan 2016 The migrant selection literature concentrates primarily on spatial patterns. This paper illustrates the implications of migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of th... Section: Discussion Papers
by Joyce Chen | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in Chi... Section: Discussion Papers
by Sylvie Démurger | On 01 Jan 2016 Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas and investigate the r... Section: Discussion Papers
by Nancy H. Chau | On 01 Jan 2016 We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expa... Section: Discussion Papers
by Dongshu Ou | On 01 Jan 2016 Based on administrative data, we analyze empirically the effects of stricter conditionality for social assistance receipt on welfare dependency and high school completion rates among Norwegian youths.... Section: Discussion Papers
by Øystein Hernæs | On 01 Jan 2016 We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We fin... Section: Discussion Papers
by Øystein Hernæs | On 01 Jan 2016 Using 18 waves of the British Household Panel Study, this paper examines state dependence and stepping stone effects of low pay. A distinguishing feature is that five types of transition- not in the l... Section: Discussion Papers
by Lixin Cai | On 01 Jan 2016 Volunteer supply is widespread, yet without a price inefficiencies occur due to suppliers’ inability to coordinate with each other and with demand. For these contexts, we propose a market clearinghous... Section: Discussion Papers
by Robert Slonim | On 01 Jan 2016 The probability of being depressed increases dramatically during adolescence and is linked to a range of adverse outcomes. Many studies show a correlation between religiosity and mental health, yet th... Section: Discussion Papers
by Jane Cooley Fruehwirth | On 01 Jan 2016 Empirically observed intertemporal choices about money have long been thought to exhibit present bias, i.e. higher short-term compared to long-term discount rates. Recently, this view has been called... Section: Discussion Papers
by Uttara Balakrishnan | On 01 Jan 2016 We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out a hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomi... Section: Discussion Papers
by Dieter Verhaest | On 01 Jan 2016 We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this depends on whether the service is universally free-of-charge visits to GP’s or priv... Section: Discussion Papers
by Nicolai Kristensen | On 01 Jan 2016 Poor air quality has been shown to harm the health and development of children. Research on these relationships has focused almost exclusively on the effects of human-made pollutants, and has not full... Section: Discussion Papers
by Dave Marcotte | On 01 Jan 2016 To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We stu... Section: Discussion Papers
by Mikael Lindahl | On 01 Jan 2016 Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and school-level inputs. In poor countries remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behin... Section: Discussion Papers
by Lisa Höckel | On 01 Jan 2016 The paper examines educational transmission between fathers (mothers) and daughters in India for daughters born during 1962-1991. We find that educational persistence, as measured by the regression co... Section: Discussion Papers
by Mehtabul Azam | On 01 Nov 2015 This paper identifies the key factors determining the correct identification of skill gaps within firms. The impact of skill gaps on average training expenditures and labour costs is also measured. Th... Section: Discussion Papers
by Luis Ortiz | On 01 Aug 2015 The findings of the paper highlights the role of fertility policies in women’s empowerment of last century. This paper investigates the impact of the birth control policies on teenage girls’ education... Section: Discussion Papers
by Wei Huang | On 01 Aug 2015 Social scientists theorize that the inverse relationship between socio-economic status and family size represents a trade-off between the quality and quantity of children. Evaluating this hypothesis e... Section: Discussion Papers
by Susan Averett | On 01 Jul 2015 This paper looks at recent trends in youth unemployment and joblessness and seeks to clarify some issues related to the nature of the youth labour market ‘problem’. During the recession, the prevalenc... Section: Discussion Papers
by Niall O’Higgins | On 01 Jun 2015 This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to dif... Section: Discussion Papers
by Niels-Hugo Blunch | On 01 Aug 2014 Both academic and political debates over the minimum wage generally
focus on the minimum wage rate. However, the minimum wage is a
complex institution composed of a wide variety of parameters. In t... Section: Discussion Papers
by Vinish Kathuria | On 01 Jun 2014 Continuous enterprise restructuring is needed for the transition and emerging market economies to become and remain competitive. However, the beneficial effects of restructuring in the medium run are... Section: Research Papers
by Hartmut Lehmann | On 01 May 2014 The effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on
budget allocation at the sub-national level is analyzed. Based on panel data for 271 Indonesian districts
for the years... Section: Working Papers
by Krisztina Kis Katos | On 01 Jan 2014 This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. A simple illustrative model based on Dustmann (2003) is presented that incorporates economic
and non-economic motive... Section: Discussion Papers
by Sylvie Démurger | On 01 Nov 2013 This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of
their leadership. A database is constructed on the personal background of 932
politicians who were at... Section: Discussion Papers
by Marion Mercier | On 01 Nov 2013 This study examines the impact of inflows of foreign workers on Korean natives’ economic
performance – namely, employment – through the Employment Permit System, the basis of
Korea’s system by which... Section: Discussion Papers
by Jungho Kim | On 01 Mar 2013 In the paper there is a use of nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemen... Section: Discussion Papers
by Farzana Afridi | On 01 Feb 2013 This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in modern China. Estimates of the wage differential between selfemployment and paid-empl... Section: Discussion Papers
by Yuling Cui | On 01 Jan 2013 Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence
suggests that women may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon because they
derive substantial long-run... Section: Discussion Papers
by Laura Zimmermann | On 01 Sep 2012 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 model... Section: Discussion Papers
by Emilia Bono | On 01 Jun 2012 This
paper employs a novel strategy to create a unique father-son matched data that is
representative of the entire adult male population in India. Using this father-son matched
data, the paper stu... Section: Working Papers
by Mehtabul Azam | On 01 May 2012 Public works programs, aimed at building a strong social safety net through redistribution of wealth and generation of meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries.... Section: Discussion Papers
by Mehtabul Azam | On 01 May 2012 The paper examines the Chinese Economy on the basis of four factors namely, human development, education, growth and inequality.
[IZA DP No. 6550]
URL: [http://ftp.iza.org/dp6550.pdf] Section: Discussion Papers
by James J Heckman | On 01 May 2012 This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children’s
well-being. Using data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, an investigation of the... Section: Discussion Papers
by Michele Binci | On 30 Apr 2012 The link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes are analyzed using a
newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the
distribution of income a... Section: Discussion Papers
by Norman Loayza | On 30 Mar 2012 Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to
developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s,
but foreign brides... Section: Discussion Papers
by Daiji Kawaguchi | On 30 Mar 2012 This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they
complete their education and enter the labor market is related to the family’s socioeconomic
circumstances. W... Section: Discussion Papers
by Deborah Cobb clark | On 28 Feb 2012 Much of the socioeconomic mobility achieved by U.S. immigrant families takes place across
rather than within generations. When assessing the long-term integration of immigrants, it is
therefore impo... Section: Discussion Papers
by Brian Duncan | On 30 Jan 2012 he caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India
from most other societies. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close
link betwee... Section: Discussion Papers
by Ira Gang | On 30 Jan 2012 This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural
diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic
developm... Section: Discussion Papers
by Quamrul Ashraf | On 15 Jan 2012 The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to
the welfare of migrant workers, particularly to their working conditions and pay. This paper
uses data from... Section: Discussion Papers
by Jason Gagnon | On 30 Dec 2011 Strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have been the primary weapon used by the
United States to combat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper
examines the dynamic... Section: Discussion Papers
by David A. Jaeger | On 03 Dec 2011 This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China’s urban labor market
using the 2009 survey data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies. Several estimation and
decomposition meth... Section: Discussion Papers
by Biwei Su | On 03 Dec 2011 Data for 436 rural districts has been used from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural In... Section: Discussion Papers
by Divya Balasubramaniam | On 01 Sep 2011 The estimation of the economic return to education has perhaps been one of the predominant areas of analysis in applied economics for over 50 years. In this short note we consider some of the recent d... Section: Discussion Papers
by Colm Harmon | On 01 Aug 2011 Spending on consumption items is examined which have signaling value in social
interactions across groups with distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are
defined by caste an... Section: Discussion Papers
by Melanie Khamis | On 15 Dec 2010 This policy note aims to achieve a coherent and mutually beneficial labor
migration system. It argues that migrant workers may importantly
contribute to economic growth and development both in sen... Section: Discussion Papers
by Robert Holzmann | On 01 Nov 2010 We study firms’ advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet
job board, and interpret these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model
allows us to dis... Section: Discussion Papers
by Peter Kuhn | On 28 Sep 2010 This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly
parents. Unlike most of the previous research estimating wage elasticities of informal care
supply, this... Section: Discussion Papers
by Olena Nizalova | On 28 Sep 2010 This paper tests the predictive value of subjective labour supply data for adjustments in
working hours over time. The idea is that if subjective labour supply data help to predict next
year’s wor... Section: Discussion Papers
by Rob Euwals | On 12 Aug 2010 In this paper they study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that
enjoy benefits upon a bilateral agreement. We explore the strategic implications of this th... Section: Discussion Papers
by Paola Manzini | On 10 Aug 2010
This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives
of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs): poverty reduction and financial viability. Using an
unbalanced pan... Section: Discussion Papers
by Thankom Arun | On 06 Aug 2010 In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts
to move economically disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous
empirical studies c... Section: Discussion Papers
by Chris M. Herbst | On 05 Jul 2010 This paper looks at
developments in and around the transition of young people from education to work in the
ECA region in recent years. The purpose of the paper is to aid understanding of the curren... Section: Discussion Papers
by Niall O’Higgins | On 05 Jul 2010 India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has expanded due to globalization in recent decades. It is widely believed that there are... Section: Discussion Papers
by Mehtabul Azam | On 26 Mar 2010 This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which... Section: Discussion Papers
by Hartmut Lehmann | On 01 Dec 2009 The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a hi... Section: Discussion Papers
by Sarmistha Pal | On 01 Nov 2009 The informality discourse is large and vibrant, and is expanding rapidly. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions l... Section: Discussion Papers
by Ravi Kanbur | On 02 May 2009 Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of the society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include m... Section: Discussion Papers
by Amit. K. Bhandari | On 16 Apr 2009 In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economy wide rates of unemployment, we construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which unemployment is caused by sea... Section: General
by Devashish Mitra | On 05 Apr 2009 They collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world’s most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. They show th... Section: Discussion Papers
by Rosalind S Hunter | On 01 Feb 2009 In this paper, the author analyzes India’s approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on financial globalization. India’s authorities have taken a cautious and c... Section: Discussion Papers
by Eswar S. Prasad | On 01 Jan 2009 This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) and published in Lives of the Laureates (MIT... Section: Discussion Papers
by William Breit | On 01 Jan 2009 This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the... Section: Discussion Papers
by Mehtabul Azam | On 01 Jan 2009 This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the entire wage distribution using the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition approach. R... Section: Discussion Papers
by Mehtabul Azam | On 01 Jan 2009 This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to
2006. After decomposing the variance of log of earnings into transitory and permanent two
parts, we find that... Section: Discussion Papers
by Zhong Zhao | On 23 Dec 2007 Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack of information on the immigrants’ labor force activities in the home country, quotas limiting who is allowed to enter t... Section: Working Papers
by Randall K. Q. Akee | On 09 Dec 2007 The essay is to provides a detailed overview of the state of the recent empirical literature on why and how children work as well as the consequences of that work. It provides a descriptive overview o... Section: Discussion Papers
by Eric Edmonds | On 01 Jun 2007 A large literature considers why children work, but little is known about why children
participate in activities that are labeled worst forms of child labor. The principal international
convention o... Section: Working Papers
by Eric Edmonds | On 20 Apr 2007 Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? This question is examined in the context of India's 1991 tariff reform... Section: Discussion Papers
by Eric Edmonds | On 13 Feb 2007 Job seekers can influence the arrival rate of job offers by the choice of search effort and the search methods they use. In this paper we empirically investigate the contribution of the use of differe... Section: Discussion Papers
by Andrea Weber | On 01 Jan 2006 High rewards or the threat of severe punishment do not only provide incentives to exert high
levels of effort but also create pressure. Such pressure can cause paradoxical performance
effects, namel... Section: Discussion Papers
by Thomas J. Dohmen | On 06 Dec 2005 Traditionally, models of economic decision-making assume that individuals are rational and
emotionless. This chapter argues that the neglect of emotion in economic models explains
their inability to... Section: Discussion Papers
by Lorenz Goette | On 06 Dec 2005 This paper is a review of the recent advances in the measurement of inequality. Inequality can have several dimensions. Economists are mostly concerned with the income and consumption dimensions of in... Section: Discussion Papers
by Almas Heshmati | On 01 Jul 2004
Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of
family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional
differences in... Section: Working Papers
by Christian Belzil | On 23 Dec 2003 Historically, in virtually all developed economies there seems to be clear evidence of an
inverse relationship between female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last
decade or... Section: Discussion Papers
by Patricia Apps | On 10 Dec 2001 Using uncertainty about the future returns to migration, the option value theory of migration
can explain low migration rates in spite of huge wage differences. This paper presents the
theory in a... Section: Discussion Papers
by Lilo Locher | On 12 Nov 2001 In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning
human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone’s
income ca... Section: Discussion Papers
by Gilles Saint Paul | On 13 Dec 2000 This paper proposes a dichotomous choice model that is based on a transformed beta (or z”)
distribution. This model, called betit, nests both logit and probit and allows for various skewed
and peak... Section: Discussion Papers
by Wim P.M. Vijverberg | On 13 Dec 2000 The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally r... Section: Discussion Papers
by Alessandro Cigno | On 16 Feb 2000 This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in
Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare
expenditures and immigra... Section: Discussion Papers
by Jörgen Hansen | On 09 Dec 1999 In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post-secondary school transitions of school leavers. Multinomial log it models are estimated for m... Section: Discussion Papers
by Regina T. Riphahn | On 09 Dec 1999 Incomplete information is a commitment device for time consistency problems. In the context of time consistent labour income taxation privacy can lead to a Pareto superior outcome and increases the ef... Section: Discussion Papers
by Kai A. Konrad | On 09 Dec 1999 |