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Flooding the brains : natural disasters, student outcomes, and the urban-rural gap in human capital

Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2024

This study provides evidence that natural disasters negatively affect student outcomes, potentially explaining the lower academic achievement of students in rural areas compared to their urban counterparts in developing countries. Using data from the Colombian school census, I estimate a...

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Long-run estimates of the global informal economies and new insights for 152 countries over 1997 to 2022 using an enhanced MIMIC approach

Asllani, Alban; Dell' Anno, Roberto; Schneider, Friedrich - 2024

Using an enhanced MIMIC method, this paper presents new and long-run estimates of the Informal Economy (IE) for 152 countries from 1997 to 2022. We address several limitations found in previous estimates of the IE, notably issues surrounding the missing values, time-invariant country...

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Gravity predictions of international migration flows

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; López Molina, Gonzalo - 2024

paper estimates simple gravity models of bilateral migration flows for the whole world and projects these models into the …

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Roots of cultural diversity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2024

expressions within an increasingly interconnected world; and (iii) the roots of variations in societal adaptability to evolving …

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Exchange rates and economic growth during the global business cycle : the role of labor market institutions

Kuokštis, Vytautas; Asali, Muhammad; Spurga, Simonas … - 2024

The effect of exchange rate regimes on economic performance is one of the key questions in international economics, both academically and policy-wise. Based on the theory of Optimum Currency Areas (OCA), we examine how labor market regulations affect the relationship between exchange rate...

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Take-up of social benefits

Ko, Wonsik; Moffitt, Robert A. - 2022

survey estimates of take-up of social benefits around the world, discuss alternative theories of reasons for incomplete take … world which follow some general patterns but are not easily explained. Theories of incomplete take-up include those …

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Migration on the rise, a paradigm in decline : the last half-century of global mobility

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has …

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The economics of internal migration : advances and policy questions

Jia, Ning; Molloy, Raven S.; Smith, Christopher L.; … - 2022

We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal migration in the U.S. We begin by describing approaches to modelling individuals' migration decisions and equilibrium outcomes across local areas. Next, we summarize evidence regarding the impact of migration on...

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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...

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Asabiyya : re-interpreting value change in globalized societies

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … question is whether "modernization" without "spiritual values" in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the … economic growth in the current world crisis is far more connected with these dimensions. We conclude that not a society based …

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