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A local community course that raises wellbeing and pro-sociality: evidence from a randomised controlled trial

Krekel, Christian; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Fancourt, Daisy; … - 2021

local communities by means of intervention. Can we teach people to live happier lives, cost-effectively and at scale? We … Matters") is run by non-expert volunteers (laypeople) in their local communities and to date has been conducted in more than …

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Does pollution drive achievement? : the effect of traffic pollution on academic performance

Heissel, Jennifer; Persico, Claudia; Simon, David - 2019

We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between schools near highways, where one school has had greater...

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Anand, Paul; llen, Heidi; Ferrer, Robert; Gold, Natalie; … - 2020

the analysis. Firstly, transport roles and travelling practices are significant predictors of infection. Secondly …, evidence from the US especially shows union membership, consultation over safety measures and the need to use public transport …

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COVID-19, race, and gender

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2021

occupational segregation in the health care and transportation sectors and by commuting on public transport. Living arrangements …

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Between firm changes in earnings inequality : the dominant role of industry effects

Haltiwanger, John C.; Spletzer, James - 2020

the U.S. is accounted for by industry effects. These industry effects stem from rising inter-industry earnings … differentials and not from changing distribution of employment across industries. We also find the rising inter-industry earnings … components of the recent literature: one focuses on firm effects and the other on occupation effects. The link via industry …

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From Ghana to America : the skill content of jobs and economic development

Bello, Salvatore Lo; Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura; … - 2019

There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not...

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The contribution of female health to economic development

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2015

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for...

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Mass refugee inflow and long-run prosperity : lessons from the Greek population resettlement

Murard, Elie; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan - 2018

This paper investigates the long-term consequences of mass refugee inflow on economic development by examining the effect of the first large-scale population resettlement in modern history. After the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-1922, 1.2 million Greek Orthodox were forcibly resettled from Turkey...

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What accounts for the US ascendancy to economic superpower by the early 20th century : the morrill act - human capital hypothesis

Ehrlich, Isaac; Cook, Adam; Yin, Yong - 2018

Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing factors. Identifying the land-grant colleges system triggered by the 1862/1890 Morrill Acts (MAs) as a...

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Is there a trade-off between employment and productivity?

Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013

The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of...

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