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The origins of early childhood anthropometric persistence

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013

Rates of childhood obesity have increased dramatically in the last few decades. Non-causal evidence suggests that childhood obesity is highly persistent over the life cycle. However little is known about the origins of this persistence. In this paper we attempt to answer three questions. First,...

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The persistence of informality : evidence from panel data

Akay, Alpaslan; Khamis, Melanie - 2011

Informality is a growing phenomenon in the developing and transition country labor market context. In particular, it is noticeable that working in an informal employment relationship is often not temporary. The degree of persistence of informality in the labor market might be due to different...

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Do men and women-economists choose the same research fields? : Evidence from top-50 departments

Dolado, Juan J. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper describes the gender distribution of research fields chosen by the faculty members in the top fifty Economics departments, according to the rankings available on the Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly distributed across fields and test some behavioral...

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Labor adjustment costs in a panel of establishments : a structural approach

Ejarque, João (contributor); Portugal, Pedro (contributor) - 2007

This paper estimates a structural model of the employment decision of the firm. Our establishment level data displays an extreme degree of rigidity in that employment levels are largely constant throughout our sample. This can be due to the fact that establishments face large shocks but also...

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The nature of occupational unemployment rates in the United States : hysteresis or structural?

Candelon, Bertrand (contributor); Dupuy, Arnaud (contributor) - 2008

for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a procedure that permits us to test for the … the 0/1 paradigm about the order of integration, usually implemented for testing the hypothesis of hysteresis in … occupational unemployment. In almost all occupations, we find support for both the structuralist and the hysteresis hypotheses, but …

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Low pay persistence in European countries

Clark, Kenneth; Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos C. - 2009

Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...

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Monetary policy and Swedish unemployment fluctuations

Alexius, Annika (contributor); Holmlund, Bertil (contributor) - 2007

A widely spread belief among economists is that monetary policy has relatively short-lived effects on real variables such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more...

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Overskilling dynamics and education pathways

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; Fok, Yin King - 2009

This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of overskilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is extensive overskilling in the labour market, and whether overskilling differs by education pathway. The...

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The effects of access to credit on productivity : separating technological changes from changes in technical efficiency

Jimi, Nusrat Abedin; Nikolov, Plamen; Malek, Mohammad Abdul - 2019

imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises …. Using a field experiment involving agricultural microenterprises in Bangladesh, we estimated the impact of access to credit …) and technical efficiency changes. We found that relative to the baseline rice output per decimal, access to credit …

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Property rights and gender bias : evidence from land reform in West Bengal

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2016

While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...

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