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Local funds and political competition : evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
Gupta, Bhanu; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - 2014
This paper examines how local politics affects public fund allocations. It uses the context of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congress (INC). Using longitudinal data on funds sanctioned and election results from three...
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Why do temporary workers have higher disability insurance risks than permanent workers?
Koning, Pierre; Muller, Paul; Prudon, Roger - 2022
differences in health translate into a substantially higher (30%) risk of applying for disability insurance (DI) in the …
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Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 success into economic recovery : a job-focused analysis of individual assessments on their finance and the economy
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Long Thanh Giang - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in income and employment loss in many countries around the world. Yet, hardly any formal study exists on household finance and future economic expectations in poorer countries. To fill in this gap, we implemented and analyzed a web-based rapid assessment survey...
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What leads to measurement errors? : evidence from reports of program participation in three surveys
Celhay, Pablo A.; Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2022
Measurement errors are often a large source of bias in survey data. Lack of knowledge of the determinants of such errors makes it difficult for data producers to reduce the extent of errors and for data users to assess the validity of analyses using the data. We study the determinants of...
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Simple tests for selection bias : learning more from instrumental variables
Black, Dan A.; Joo, Joonhwi; LaLonde, Robert John; … - 2015
We provide simple tests for selection on unobserved variables in the Vytlacil-Imbens-Angrist framework for Local Average Treatment Effects. The tests allow researchers not only to test for selection on either or both of the treated and untreated outcomes, but also to assess the magnitude of the...
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The crime effect of refugees
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Mocan, Naci; Tumen, Semih; … - 2022
We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors' offices in 81 provinces of the country each year, and utilizing the staggered...
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Subsidizing domestic services as a tool to fight unemployment: effectiveness and hidden costs
Leduc, Elisabeth; Tojerow, Ilan - 2020
deteriorates physical health, thus increasing the worker's probability of claiming disability insurance benefits. …
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Does delay cause decay? : the effect of administrative decision time on the labor force participation and earnings of disability applicants
Autor, David H.; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; … - 2015
Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer …
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The dynamics of disability and benefit receipt in Britain
Jones, Melanie; McVicar, Duncan - 2017
This paper exploits rarely-used longitudinal data to examine the impacts of disability onset on benefit receipt in … combines propensity score matching with difference-in-differences estimation. Disability onset increases receipt of disability … insurance, a wider measure of sickness and disability benefits, and receipt of non-sickness benefits by six, eight and six …
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A cautionary note on using industry affiliation to predict income
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Schwandt, Hannes - 2012
Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular industry affiliation as an instrument for income....
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