state in the south of India, we examine average and marginal returns to cattle. One variant of our identification strategy … as an instrument for investment in cattle. We find average returns in the order of -2% at the mean, but they vary across …

This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning …-century statistics on regional population/land ratios linked to anthropological measures of caste-system rigidity. Both the longitudinal … rigidity over time and across regions of India. …

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our … population and employment growth, but no significant impact on nonmetropolitan counties. In contrast, the fragmentation of … general-purpose governments per capita has a negative impact on employment and population growth in nonmetropolitan counties …

in daytime population in Washington, DC caused by the government shutdown of October 1-16, 2013. We derive implications …

alcohol problems than men who stayed. For women, we again see a higher incidence of alcohol problems for short-term migrants …. However, long-term female migrants are less likely to have suffered from alcohol problems. …

We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants’ job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …

social traits of parents has an effect on the segregation of minorities and migrants. …