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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793157
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Poverty and economic behavior : gambling at social security paydays
Dahan, Momi - 2019 - This version: 15/7/2019
The goal of this research is to explore whether actual lottery revenues are sensitive to scarcity, as measured by intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Exogenous paydays of social security benefits are employed to generate the intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Using two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064536
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Cash transfer programs and household labor supply
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Sorrenti, … - 2020
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210914
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The effect of international sanctions on the size of the middle class in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibi, Nader - 2024
This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the development of the middle class. Specifically, it investigates how the middle class in Iran would have developed in the absence of these sanctions post-2012. To address this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014563835
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Food for fuel : the effect of U.S. energy policy on Indian poverty
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2012
a sharp increase in world poverty. -- clean energy ; food prices ; household welfare ; renewable fuel standards … ; poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009582025
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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic control
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2014
In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in differences estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434019
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Does active labour market policy work? : lessons from the Swedish experiences
Calmfors, Lars; Forslund, Anders; Hemström, Maria - 2002
The Swedish experiences of the 1990s provide a unique example of how large-scale active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper surveys the empirical studies of the effects of ALMPs in Sweden. On the whole, ALMPs have probably reduced...
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When Distrust Goes Viral : Causal Effects of COVID-19 on European Political Attitudes
Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea FM; … - 2021
To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before...
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Covid-19 fatalities and internal conflict : does government economic support matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour - 2021
In this study, we look at the association between COVID-19 fatality rate and internal conflict, highlighting the importance of government economic support under the pandemic as a moderating factor. Our main hypothesis implies that increased COVID-19 fatality rates are likely to be positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643553
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COVID-19 Fatalities and Internal Conflict : Does Government Economic Support Matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Gholipour, Hassan F. - 2021
In this study, we look at the association between COVID-19 fatality rate and internal conflict, highlighting the importance of government economic support under the pandemic as a moderating factor. Our main hypothesis implies that increased COVID-19 fatality rates are likely to be positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323876