illustrate, we estimate the welfare impact of a recent household electrification program in South Africa. Congestion … externalities from migration reduced local welfare gains by half. …

This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … the short run the impact of migration on average welfare in these countries is close to zero, while the skilled and …. The welfare impact of observed levels of migration is substantial, at about 5 to 10% for the main receiving countries and …

Were cash benefits and welfare services available to the unemployed sufficient to protect them from ill-health? Recent … reappraisals have tended to magnify the influence of welfare provision. The present review draws on hitherto unexploited …, confidential reports of the Ministry of Health and Board of Education, to point out that expert witnesses were increasingly …

employment protection focusing on this trade-off between adjustment costs and productivity. We show that from a welfare point of …

health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but imperfect correlation across …, smoking, occupational choice, participation in sports, and migration, the paper compares the predictive power of all of the …

This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania …. Using a 13-year panel survey, the authors find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added 36 percentage points to … migration of some categories of people. …