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Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the relatively well-established role of public works during economic crisis as a social safety net. This paper contributes to evidence building by examining the impact of a...
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Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide temporary cash-for-work opportunities to boost poor households' incomes and to provide better infrastructure to local communities. While PWPs do not target children directly, the...
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This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...
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In many countries, age discrimination appears to be driven by negative perceptions that recruiters stereotypically hold … thereby improve these candidates' hiring chances. We test this pathway out of age discrimination by designing a scenario … compensate for age discrimination, it cannot mitigate this as the premium it yields is not higher for older workers. …
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We investigate whether being female, from a non-English speaking background (NESB) or having a disability affects career advancement in the Australian Public Service. Over the past twenty years, women have become more likely to get promoted at senior ranks than similar men and just as likely at...
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Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email …
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conveying legally relevant information to judges. Thus, we provide direct evidence for time-varying discrimination toward …
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Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …
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. -- beauty ; height ; discrimination ; market responses …
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measures of salary discrimination that adjust for measured productivity may be flawed. We derive the magnitude of the bias …
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