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The Effects of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Children's Nutrition and Education
Dodlova, Marina; Escobar, Michelle; Grimm, Michael - 2023
We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children’s stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and … the earthquake’s aftermath. This aid mitigated but could not fully prevent the adverse effects on children’s health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347786
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Are Economic Preferences Shaped by the Family Context? The Impact of Birth Order and Siblings' Sex Composition on Economic Preferences
Detlefsen, Lena - 2019
social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …. However, siblings’ sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892225
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A Theoretical Analysis of the Effects of Legislation on Marriage, Fertility, Domestic Division of Labour, and the Education of Children
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market … work leaving the care of the children to the mother. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316739
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Regional inequality and internal conflict
Lessmann, Christian - 2013
This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional inequalities are measured by the population-weighted coefficient of variation of regional GDP per capita. As the main innovation, I use a panel data set of country-level re- gional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291665
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Africa's Skill Tragedy: Does Teachers' Lack of Knowledge Lead to Low Student Performance?
Bietenbeck, Jan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2015
Student performance in Sub-Saharan Africa is tragically low. We study the importance of teacher subject knowledge for student performance in this region using unique international assessment data for sixth-grade students and their teachers. To circumvent potential bias due to unobserved student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307136
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Aggregate Fluctuations and International Migration
Beine, Michel; Bourgeon, Pauline; Bricongne, Jean-Charles - 2013
Traditional theories of integration such as the optimum currency area approach attribute a prominent role to international labour mobility in coping with relative economic fluctuations between countries. However, recent studies on international migration have overlooked the role of short-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323029
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2013
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328844
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The Dynamic Implications of Liberalizing Global Migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014
This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and education decisions. We identify bilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333443
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International Migration of Skilled Workers with Endogenous Policies
Djajic, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. - 2014
We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and career opportunities at home and abroad. Greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352442
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Finance and Income Inequality: A Review and New Evidence
de Haan, Jakob; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2016
Using a panel fixed effects model for a sample of 121 countries covering 1975 ]2005, we examine how financial development, financial liberalization and banking crises are related to income inequality. In contrast with most previous work, our results suggest that all finance variables increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555521