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The dire consequences of untamed population growth in the Netherlands
Hartog, Joop - 2024
In the postwar period, when fertility dropped substantially, immigration more than made up for the drop in population growth, and from 1950 to 2020, population increased by 73%, double the European rate, in a country with population density already among the highest in Europe. Yet, there never...
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The impact of micro-credit on employment : evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan
Kahn, Azhar; Rahman, Twyeafur; Wright, Robert E. - 2016
-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non …. For Pakistan, there is no evidence that micro-credit effects employment. However, for Bangladesh, there is robust evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502591
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Broadband diffusion and firm performance in rural areas : quasi-experimental evidence
Canzian, Giulia; Poy, Samuele; Schüller, Simone - 2015
This article analyzes the causal impact of advanced broadband accessibility on firm performance. We exploit a unique local policy intervention of a staged broadband infrastructure installation across rural municipalities in the Province of Trento (Italy), generating a source of exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348292
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Does college location affect the location choice of new college graduates? : evidence from China
Huang, Mian; Xing, Chunbing; Xiaoyong, Cui - 2019
Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their location choice upon graduation. We use a discrete choice model and the BLP method to solve the endogeneity problem of housing cost and to estimate the unobservable location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034255
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Implications of the Polish 1999 administrative reform for regional socio-economic development
Myck, Michał; Najsztub, Mateusz - 2019
On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local administration. After 20 years, only in the last case does the original structural design remain essentially unchanged. We examine the implications of this reform from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993171
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Formal and informal risk sharing in LDCs : theory and empirical evidence
Dubois, Pierre (contributor); Jullien, Bruno (contributor);  … - 2007
estimate the model with the use of data from Pakistan villages. Empirical results are consistent with the economic arguments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599696
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Are drone strikes effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? : on the dynamics of violence between the United States and the Taliban
Jaeger, David A.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011
Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any …/Al-Qaeda violence in Pakistan. We find that our results are robust to examining different time periods and lag structures. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529262
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Does cash for school influence young women's behavior in the longer term? : evidence from Pakistan
Alam, Andaleeb; Baez, Javier E.; Del Carpio, Ximena V. - 2011
The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was … ; female education ; female labor participation ; fertility ; Pakistan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306968
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Organizational barriers to technology adoption : evidence from soccer-ball producers in Pakistan
Atkin, David J.; Chaudhry, Shahid Amjad; Chaudry, Shamyla; … - 2015
This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new …
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Can microinsurance help prevent child labor? : an impact evaluation from Pakistan
Landmann, Andreas; Frölich, Markus - 2013
labor ; health insurance ; Pakistan …
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