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Information frictions about the benefits of migration can lead to inefficient migration choices. We study the effects of a randomly assigned information treatment about regional income differentials in Ghana and Uganda to learn about participants' belief updating and subsequent changes in...
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The literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that the lack of social mobility of some groups has a spatial dimension. It is thought that those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods are the least likely to achieve upward mobility because of a range of negative neighbourhood effects. Most...
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deprivation areas, suggesting a "social norm" effect. Our random effects (household) ordered probit modelling approach finds that …
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This study examines the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of poverty and deprivation in South Africa to assess the … can reflect the reduction in deprivation attributable to the improved affordability and expanded coverage of government … work has considered multi-dimensional deprivation over the two decades following the official fall of apartheid. We adopt …
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to get to work are also significant predictors. This is interpreted as evidence of the role of deprivation and of …
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almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified status is associated with greater deprivation in access to basic … services, thereby increasing vulnerability to poor health outcomes. To quantify deprivation for each slum, we construct a basic … services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …
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This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...
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and overall life-satisfaction questions and vary the labeling of response scales, mode of interviewing, and location of … distribution of reported satisfaction measures, particularly for women. Results from the sort of conditional modeling used to …
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. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental …
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how deviations from housework norms relate to couples' satisfaction. In stage one, we model housework time to identify … satisfaction based on predicted and residual housework time. We find that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected …
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