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The Weight of the Crisis: Evidence from Newborns in Argentina

Bozzoli, Carlos; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden …

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Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina

Iturriza, Ana; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In 2001-02, Argentina experienced a wrenching economic crisis. Plan Jefes, implemented in May 2002, was Argentina …

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Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-Program Expansion and Economic Crisis

Khamis, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Limited availability of workfare programs and unemployment insurance and a large informal sector are features of the Argentine labor market at the outset of the 2001 economic crisis. This paper tests the hypothesis whether informal work is an alternative to workfare participation before a...

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Returns to Education and Macroeconomic Shocks: Evidence from Argentina

López Bóo, Florencia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Returns to schooling in urban Argentina increased from 1992 to 2003, a period of economic reforms and macroeconomic …

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Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina's Downturns

Cruces, Guillermo; Glüzmann, Pablo; López-Calva, Luis … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health …

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A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review

Eckstein, Zvi; Gal-Or, Esther; Gylfason, Thorvaldur; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...

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Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …

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Economics and Religion

Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of …

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How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism

Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...

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Egalitarian Religion and Economics

Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...

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