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Returns to education in four transition countries : quantile regression approach

Staneva, Anita; Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza; Murphy, Philip - 2010

from Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan and Serbia in 2003, we show that the return to education is heterogeneous across the …

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Energy price shocks and the demand for energy-efficient housing : evidence from Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Braakmann, Nils; Dursun, Bahadir; Pickard, Harry - 2023

How do private consumers adapt to changes to energy prices, in particular do they invest in energy-saving measures? We study this question in the context of the rapid rise in energy prices caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the demand for energy efficiency in the UK...

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Autopsy on an empire : understanding mortality in Russia and the former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth (contributor); … - 2005

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the …

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Connecting to economic opportunity? : the role of public transport in promoting women's employment in Lima

Martinez, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Salgado, Edgar; … - 2018

Limited access to safe transportation is one of the greatest challenges to labor force participation faced by women in developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban transport systems in women´s employment outcomes, looking at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and...

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How do airlines cut fuel usage, reducing their carbon emissions?

Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023

Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...

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Returns to schooling in Kazakhstan : OLS and instrumental variables approach

Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza (contributor); … - 2006

This paper examines rates of return to schooling in Kazakhstan using OLS and instrumental variable (IV) methodologies … underestimate the true rates of return. The results indicate that the returns to schooling in Kazakhstan have increased with … transition. This may reflect the relative scarcities of highly educated people in Kazakhstan with human capital that employers …

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Economic and spatial determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan

Aldashev, Alisher; Dietz, Barbara - 2012

In this paper we analyze economic and spatial determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly … should facilitate regional income convergence in Kazakhstan and improve living standards in depressed regions …. -- interregional migration ; Kazakhstan ; gravity model …