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The Deterrent Effect of an Anti-Minaret Vote on Foreigners’ Location Choices
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois - 2019
negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners’ location choices and thus indirectly on their utility. Based on a … further construction of minarets. The ballot outcome manifested reservations and anti-immigrant attitudes in regions of … regression discontinuity design with unknown discontinuity points and administrative data on the population of foreigners, we …
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Learning from the Origins
Yarkin, Alexander - 2023
phenomenon generalizes beyond refugee attitudes. …
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The Forest Behind the Tree: Heterogeneity in How US Governor's Party Affects Black Workers
Tchuente, Guy; Kakeu, Johnson; Francois, John Nana - 2021
outcomes. We use a regression discontinuity design (RDD) based on marginal electoral victories and samples of quantiles groups …
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Parental Migration, Investment in Children, and Children's Non-cognitive Development: Evidence from Rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...
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Commuting Patterns, the Spatial Distribution of Jobs and the Gender Pay Gap in the U.S.
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2018
This paper studies to what extent gender differences in commuting patterns explain the observed disparities between husband and wife in relation to earnings and wages. It is argued that the cost of commuting is higher for women because they bear a disproportionate share of housework and...
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Social Barriers to Female Migration: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, M Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if...
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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an eventstudy design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
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Residential responses to cyclones: New evidence from Australia
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis - 2024
By leveraging randomly timed exposure to local cyclones as natural experiments, this study pioneers a comprehensive causal analysis of cyclone impacts on residential outcomes among Australian individuals. Drawing upon over two decades of nationally representative longitudinal data from the...
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It’s the way people move! Labour migration as an adjustment device in Russia
Pastore, Francesco; Semerikova, Elena - 2020
This paper aims to assess the role of migration as an adjustment mechanism device to favor convergence across states and regions of Russia. In contrast to previous studies, we use variations in the population of a region as a proxy of its net migration rate and apply spatial econometric...
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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality - A causal investigation
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021
This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...
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