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This paper studies the relationship between generalized trust, temperature fluctuations during the maize growing season, and international migration by asylum seekers. A priori generalized trust can be expected to have an ambiguous effect on migration. On the one hand, countries with higher...
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We examine the effect of co-residence with fathers- and mothers-in-law on married women's employment in India …-in-law reduces married women's employment by 11-13%, while co-residence with a mother-in-law has no effect. Difference …-in-difference estimates show that married women's employment increases following the death of a co-residing father-in-law, but not mother …
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capital, not for other goods, translate into more investment and employment of production workers. …
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-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse … economic and social integration. These impacts are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …
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This paper examines the long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring in early childhood. For this purpose, we evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development monitoring through routine health checkups for all...
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How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to...
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About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …
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experiment. We examine the impact of three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes of Syrian refugees and … grant; liquidity appears to be a key barrier to employment for refugees. … meaningful impact on the probability that individuals are in wage employment; we estimate that our targeting algorithm had a …
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This article analyzes whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee …
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percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing …We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived … refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the …
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