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The Effects of the Great Recession on Teenagers' Risky Health Behaviors and Time Use
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper uses individual-level data from both the 2003-2011 American Time Use Survey and Youth Risk Behavior Survey and state-level unemployment rates to examine the effects of the Great Recession on teenagers' activities. I present results by gender and gender by race/ethnicity. Over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884154
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Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
Wright, Richard; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and transactional anonymity. In poor neighborhoods where street offenses are concentrated, a significant source of circulating cash stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891177
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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009404596
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Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis
Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762324
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A Call for Comparative Research: Consequences of a Rising Income Inequality for State Activities
Neubäumer, Renate - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The aim of this discussion paper is not only to activate a debate over the interrelation between rising income inequality and economic policy measures but also to initiate comparative research in several European countries and North America. It discusses the consequences of a rising income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003477
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Do Workers Really Benefit From Their Social Networks?
Fontaine, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched together through social networks or through more "formal" methods of search. We show that networks do not necessarily add new externalities and that some results previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566629
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Ökonometrische Methoden zur Evaluierung kausaler Effekte der Wirtschaftspolitik
Kugler, Franziska; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
wirtschaftlich erreichen. In empirischen Studien, die als Grundlage für evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik dienen können, werden …-experimentellen Designs sollen der Wirtschaftspolitik helfen zu lernen, was funktioniert. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098067
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884100
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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Y.; Dimova, Ralitza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …
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