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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000
Blau, Francine D. - 2008
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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Kosher Pork
Drazen, Allan - 2011
Both conventional wisdom and leading academic research view pork barrel spending as antithetical to responsible policymaking in times of crisis. In this paper we present an alternative view. When agents are heterogeneous in their ideology and in their information about the economic situation,...
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A Resource Belief-Curse? Oil and Individualism
Tella, Rafael Di - 2008
We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure...
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The Non-Cognitive Returns to Class Size
Dee, Thomas - 2008
Although recent evidence suggests that non-cognitive skills such as engagement matter for academic and economic success, there is little evidence on how key educational inputs affect the development of these skills. We present a re-analysis of follow-up data from the Project STAR class-size...
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Political Pressure Deflection
Anderson, James E. - 2004
Much economic policy is deliberately shifted away from direct political processes to administrative processes --- political pressure deflection. Pressure deflection poses a puzzle to standard political economy models which suggest that having policies to `sell' is valuable to politicians. The...
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Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Leader and Constituent Responses to a Large-Scale Intervention
Guiteras, Raymond P. - 2015
Comprehensive evaluation requires tracking indirect effects of interventions, such as politicians and constituents reacting to the arrival of a development program. We study political economy responses to a large scale intervention in Bangladesh, where 346 communities consisting of 16,600...
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Poverty and Self-Control
Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2013
The absence of self-control is often viewed as an important correlate of persistent poverty. Using a standard intertemporal allocation problem with credit constraints faced by an individual with quasi- hyperbolic preferences, we argue that poverty damages the ability to exercise self-control....
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Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica
Alfaro-Ureña, Alonso; Faber, Benjamin; Gaubert, Cecile; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) increasingly impose "Responsible Sourcing" (RS) standards on their suppliers worldwide, including requirements on worker compensation, benefits and working conditions. Are these policies just "hot air" or do they impact exposed suppliers and their workers? What...
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Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan
Mitchener, Kris J. - 2008
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The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment
Ghironi, Fabio - 2007
Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …
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