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Undernutrition and Psychosocial Competencies: Evidence from Four Countries

Dercon, Stefan; Sánchez, Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Both cognitive and non-cognitive skills matter to understand a child's opportunities and outcomes in adulthood. However, it is unclear how non-cognitive skills are acquired and what the role played by household investments is in this process. Motivated by suggestions from the medical literature...

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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Human Capital, Growth and Inequality in Transition Economies

Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

possible implications of this key fact by surveying and adapting literature on growth and inequality. I focus especially on the …

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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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Inequality, Technology and the Social Contract

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how … configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive policy are feasible in the long run, when all three are endogenous. I … show in particular how the diffusion of technology leads to the ‘exporting’ of inequality across borders; and how this, 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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Brain drain in globalization: A general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries’ perspective

Docquier, Frédéric; Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

High-skilled emigration has been found to affect developing economies via different channels. With a calibrated general equilibrium framework, this paper finds that the short-run impact of brain drain on resident human capital is extremely crucial, as it does not only determine the number of...

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Human Capital and the Future of Transition Economies

Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Transition economies have an initial condition of high human capital relative to GDP per capita, giving them high growth potential. In the model, at a good equilibrium a large number of children of well-educated parents take advantage of their family backgrounds and invest substantially in their...

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Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: New Econometric Evidence

Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform? This Paper uses a unique dataset (covering about 3 million Hungarian wage earners, from 1986 to 1998) and a novel procedure to correct sample selection bias (based on DiNardo,...

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