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Education and Migration Choices in Hierarchical Societies: The Case of Matam, Senegal
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Demonsant, Jean-Luc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The paper aims at studying determinants of schooling in traditional hierarchical societies confronted with an established history of outmigration. In the village, a ruling caste controls local political and religious institutions. For children who do not belong to the ruling caste, migration is...
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Migration, Congestion Externalities, and the Evaluation of Spatial Investments
Dinkelman, Taryn; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Evaluations of new infrastructure in developing countries typically focus on direct effects, such as the impact of an electrifification program on household energy use. But if new infrastructure induces people to move into an area, other local publicly provided goods may become congested,...
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Mitigating long-run health effects of drought: Evidence from South Africa
Dinkelman, Taryn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Drought is Africa’s primary natural disaster and a pervasive source of income risk for poor households. This paper documents the long-run health effects of early life exposure to drought and investigates an important source of heterogeneity in these effects. Combining birth cohort variation in...
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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay
Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Siegrist, Johannes; Verde, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...
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Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China
Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …
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Where do Migrants Go? Risk-Aversion, Mobility Costs and the Locational Choice of Migrants
Daveri, Francesco; Faini, Riccardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
As part of their effort to pool individual risk, households consider spreading their members over a plurality of locations, both inside and outside their country of origin. At the same time, the world is ridden with ‘Chinatowns’ and ‘Little Italies’: people, whenever they move, tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124202
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Economic Developments in the Balkan Countries and the Role of Greece: From Bilateral Relations to the Challenge of Integration
Christodoulakis, Nikos; Petrakos, George - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
Throughout the post-war period Greece has faced a unique, and unfavourable, situation consisting of: (i) a perimetric location away from major European markets; and (ii) distorted economic relations as its northern borders were designed to be real barriers to communication and trade with...
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Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion
Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households …
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Finance and Poverty: Evidence from India
Ayyagari, Meghana; Beck, Thorsten; Hoseini, Mohammad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
outreach on rural poverty. Following the 1991 liberalization episode, we find a strong negative relationship between financial … deepening, rather than financial breadth, and rural poverty. Instrumental variable regressions suggest that this relationship is … robust to omitted variable and endogeneity biases. We also find that financial deepening has reduced poverty rates especially …
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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US
Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; von Berlepsch, Viola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Have Irish, German or Italian settlers arriving in the US at the turn of the 20th century left an institutional trace which determines economic development differences to this day? Does the national origin of migrants matter for long-term development? This paper explores whether the distinct...
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