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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2014

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of … the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting … stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can exacerbate the negative impact of adverse weather on harvest-stage wages …

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Wage Gains Associated with Height as a Form of Health Human Capital

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2002

height on log hourly wages in recent national surveys from three countries: Ghana, Brazil and the United States. I conclude … human capital wage effects of height compared with the OLS estimates. The OLS estimates of height effects on wages are …

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Wage Premiums for Education and Location of South African Workers, By gender and Race.

Mwabu, G.; Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

Despite the fact that the quality of education for Africans in South Africa was lower than that for whites, in 1993 the percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education were substantially higher for Africans than for whites. These rates increased...

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Eroding the Economic Foundations of Marriage and Fertility in the United States.

Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

estimating a model for the joint determination of wages of women and of their potential husbands, the probability that women are …

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Wage Premia for Education and Location, by Gender and Race in South Africa

Schultz, T.P.; Mwabu, G. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race...

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Markets for Communist Human Capital: Returns to Education and Experience in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Chase, R.S. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

This research examines different in earnings structure between Communist and post-Communist Czech Republic and Slovakia usinf four sets of similar micro-data. It presents hypotheses about hoe earnings dispersion returns to education and returns to experience will change across regimes and tests...

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WAGE INEQUALITY AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF EDUCATION: A STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN INEQUALITY IN METROPOLITAN BRAZIL.

DOS REIS, J.G.A.; DE BARROS, R.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1990

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AGGREGATING INEQUALITIES: THE EQUALIZING IMPACT OF THE EARNINGS OF MARRIED WOMEN IN METROPOLITAN BRAZIL.

DE BARROS, R.P.; DE MONDINCA, R.S.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1990

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Labor Unions and the Distribution of Wages and Employment in South Africa

Schultz, T.P.; Mwabu, G. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

largest in the world in South Africa, with African and white workers receiving wages that differ by a factor of five. The … workers is shown to be associated in 1993 with their receiving wages that are 145 percent higher than comparable nonunion …

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A Comparison of the Effects of Matching and Search on the Wages of Men and Women.

Royalty, A.B. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1993

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