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Climatic factors as determinants of international migration
Beine, Michel; Parsons, Christopher A. - 2012 - This version: February 2012
We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between unexpected short-run factors, captured by natural disasters, as well as long-run climate change and climate variability. Building on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503816
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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition : evidence from the Greek famine
Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2010
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949069
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Migrants and firms : evidence from China
Imbert, Clément; Seror, Marlon; Zhang, Yifan; … - 2018
This paper estimates the causal effect of rural-urban migration on urban production in China. We use longitudinal data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955657
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Fertility cost, intergenerational labor division, and female employment
Yu, Haiyue; Cao, Jin; Kang, Shulong - 2018
China has set to increase the minimum retirement age, to ease the pressure from pension expenditure and the falling … China largely rely on retired grandparents for childcare. Using novel and high-quality survey data, we demonstrate that … grandparental childcare are higher for better-educated, urban females with younger children. This paper thus reveals a large, hidden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924512
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What stayers do? : capital endowments and on-farm transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - 2018
While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926385
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Isolating the "Tech" from EdTech : experimental evidence on computer assisted learning in China
Ma, Yue; Fairlie, Robert W.; Loyalka, Prashant; … - 2020
schoolchildren in rural China. Although we find evidence of positive overall CAL program effects on academic outcomes, when we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195832
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Cumulative climate shocks and migratory flows : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Di Falco, Salvatore; Kis, Anna B.; Viarengo, Martina - 2022
We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...
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Marriage and the city
Gautier, Pieter (contributor); Svarer, Michael (contributor) - 2005
Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the marriage market benefits disappear while the housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002746051
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The cost of migrating to a culturally different location
Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - 2014
Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412765
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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014632347