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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...

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The Allocation of Time in Sleep: a Social Network Model with Sampled Data

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The sampling design of the survey causes the conventional 2SLS estimator to be …

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Strong and Weak Ties in Employment and Crime

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper analyses the interplay between social structure and information exchange in two competing activities, crime and labour. We consider a dynamic model in which individuals belong to mutually exclusive two-person groups, referred to as dyads. There are multiple equilibria. If jobs are...

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Growth and Labour Markets in Developing Countries

Satchi, Mathan; Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In middle-income countries, the informal sector often accounts for a substantial fraction of urban employment. We develop a general equilibrium model with matching frictions in the urban labour market, the possibility of self-employment in the informal sector, and scope for rural-urban...

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Origins and Consequences of Child Labour Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In this paper we investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labour restrictions for economic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire equilibrium may be inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the imposition of...

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How far away is a Single European Labor Market?

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

A Single European Labor Market, particularly involving the free movement of workers within Europe, has been a goal of the European community since the 1950s. Whereas it may entail opportunities and drawbacks alike, the benefits—such as greater economic welfare for most citizens—are supposed...

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Job Characteristics and Labor Turnover: Assessing the Role of Preferences and Opportunities in Teacher Mobility

Bonhomme, Stéphane; Jolivet, Grégory; Leuven, Edwin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Abstract Job characteristics can affect worker turnover through their effect on utility and through their effect on outside job opportunities. We separately identify and estimate the roles of these two channels. Our method exploits information on job changes and relies on an augmented sample...

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Risky sexual behavior: biological markers and self-reported data

Corno, Lucia; De Paula, Áureo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Health Survey from Zambia, we calibrate the model and provide conditions under which self-reported data are a better proxy …

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Household Responses to Information on Child Nutrition: Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Fitzsimons, Emla; Malde, Bansi; Mesnard, Alice; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health … Malawi which provides mothers with information on infant nutrition and health. It finds that the intervention results in … funded by increased father’s labor supply, constituting evidence that changes in the perceived child health production …

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Weather and Infant Mortality in Africa

Kudamatsu, Masayuki; Persson, Torsten; Strömberg, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We estimate how random weather fluctuations affected infant mortality across 28 African countries in the past, combining high-resolution data from retrospective fertility surveys (DHS) and climate-model reanalysis (ERA-40). We find that infants were much more likely to die when exposed in utero...

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