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Improving Children Health and Cognition: Evidence from School-Based Nutrition Intervention in India

Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018

We present experimental evidence on the impact of delivering double-fortified salt (DFS), salt fortified with iron and iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called “mid-day meal” on anemia, cognition, and math and reading scores of primary school children. We conducted a field...

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On the road to integration? Immigrant’s demand for informal (& formal) education

Coniglio, Nicola D.; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Jayet, Hubert - 2019

In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For immigrants the private investment in these activities is...

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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2023

wages to pay the loan back with interests. …

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Time allocation of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in India: The role of education as bargaining power

Bhattacharya, Leena - 2023

The paper addresses the less-researched topic of intrahousehold dynamics of female in-laws in developing countries by focusing on the bargaining between mother-in-law and daughter-inlaw and its influence on the latter's time allocation. Using the first nationally representative Time Use Survey...

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Does Student Work Really Affect Educational Outcomes? A Review of the Literature

Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2017

We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...

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Do Workers Benefit from Resource Booms in Their Home State? Evidence from the Fracking Era

Winters, John V.; Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; … - 2019

Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...

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The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities. A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics

Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020

to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …

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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants

Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020

, we estimate the causal effects of a firm’s bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …

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Ethnic identity and immigrants' labour market outcomes

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021

. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … work more hours but are not given the opportunity), three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. We further … that ethnic identity strongly is associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …

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Artificial Intelligence Capital and Employment Prospects

Drydakis, Nick - 2024

jobs that offered higher wages than those without AI capital. Furthermore, it was found that large firms exhibited a …

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