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women of the South Caucasus region. The rich data collected annually by the Caucasus Research Resource Center allows us to … negative happiness gap for working women in Armenia and in Azerbaijan, but not in Georgia. The absence of such a gap among the …
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This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova …
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and performance of German firms. More specifically, we study the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia in 2014 in … response to the annexation of Crimea and Russia's countermeasures. We find a substantial negative effect on both the extensive … dependent on Russia as an export market and those directly affected by the sanctions. …
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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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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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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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Inmates' informal code regulates their behavior and attitudes. We investigate whether prisons contribute to the spread of these norms to the general population using an exogenous shock of the Soviet amnesty of 1953, which released 1.2 million prisoners. We document the spread of prison norms in...
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Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues - including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...
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-age populations in the world). Informal networks in Russia are likely to take on distinctive characteristics as the country's economic … found in much wealthier countries. Although it is often assumed that the elderly in Russia are a highly vulnerable economic …
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