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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Four Latin American countries
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020
We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents. Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In 2013, a reform reallocated some classes to Wednesday mornings. Exploiting variations in the...
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Tropical storms and mortality under climate change
Pugatch, Todd - 2019
statistics records from a large developing country, Mexico. Using a measure of storm exposure that accounts for both windspeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977438
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Schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries
Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastian - 2024
This paper presents new evidence on schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries. By combining survey information with national census data, we have constructed a novel dataset that includes 50,000 triads of grandparents, parents, and children born between 1890 and...
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...
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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
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An economic analysis of exclusion restrictions for instrumental variable estimation
Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor) - 2007
Instrumental variable estimation requires untestable exclusion restrictions. With policy effects on individual outcomes, there is typically a time interval between the moment the agent realizes that he may be exposed to the policy and the actual exposure or the announcement of the actual...
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Female political representation and substantive effects on policies : a literature review
Hessami, Zohal; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2020
The share of women in political offices has increased considerably over the past few decades in almost every country in the world. Does this matter for policy outcomes? This is the first paper to provide a literature review on the substantive effects of female representation on policies. In...
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Happiness and public policy : a procedural perspective
Stutzer, Alois - 2019
This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...
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Women in political bodies as policymakers
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2023
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North-South trade liberalization and returns to skill in the south : the case of Mexico
Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); Otero, Rafael (contributor) - 2008
This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model …, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of low-skill workers, that is, lowered returns to skill in Mexico. Analysis …
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