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Breaking the link between legal access to alcohol and motor vehicle accidents : evidence from New South Wales
Lindo, Jason M.; Siminski, Peter; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2014
the causal effects of the minimum legal drinking age in New South Wales, Australia provides a particularly informative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239267
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Empowering women through education and influence : an evaluation of the Indian Mahila Samakhya program
Kandpal, Eeshani; Baylis, Kathy; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P. - 2012
This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases participants' physical mobility, political participation, and access to employment. The program provides support groups, literacy camps, adult education classes, and vocational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530677
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Tying your enemy's hands in close races : the politics of federal transfers in Brazil
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2011
This paper uses a quasi-experimental strategy to disclose utterly political reasons behind the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We apply a regression discontinuity design in close elections to identify the effect of political alignment on federal transfers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306316
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Does violent crime deter physical activity?
Janke, Katharina; Propper, Carol; Shields, Michael - 2013
Crime has been argued to have important externalities. We investigate the relationship between violent crime and an important type of behaviour: individuals' participation in their local area through walking and physical activity. We use a sample of nearly 1 million people residing in over 320...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786945
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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727736
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The use of welfare by migrants in Italy
Pellizzari, Michele - 2011
A large part of the Italian welfare system is designed and implemented at the very local level, leading to a high degree of heterogeneity in the type and the generosity of available programs across the country. As a consequence, studies of welfare use based on standard household surveys may fail...
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The impact of social capital on crime : evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, I. Semih (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. By employing current and historical data for Dutch municipalities and by providing novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003739947
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Underreporting of earnings and the minimum wage spike
Tonin, Mirco - 2011
This paper documents a positive correlation within European labour markets between the proportion of full-time employees with earnings on the minimum wage and the extent of underreporting of earnings in the economy. Using a simple model of a competitive labour market, I show how this correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380463
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The determinants of the geographic concentration among immigrants : application to Australia
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
concentrated. Testing the model for Australia shows that the extent of geographic concentration of immigrant groups is negatively … related to age at migration, duration of residence in Australia and the proportion of the birthplace group that is fluent in … the country of origin and the place of residence in Australia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410657
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Immigrants' language skills and visa category
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410920