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Bounds on average and quantile treatment effects on duration outcomes under censoring, selection, and noncompliance

Blanco, German; Chen, Xuan; Flores, Carlos; … - 2018

We consider the problem of assessing the effects of a treatment on duration outcomes using data from a randomized evaluation with noncompliance. For such settings, we derive nonparametric sharp bounds for average and quantile treatment effects addressing three pervasive problems simultaneously:...

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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft

We present credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). This is the first paper, to our knowledge, to provide estimates of sibling...

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Turkish university students' self-perceptions of aging : an analysis over socio-economic dimensions

Yumurtaci, Aynur; Bagis, Bilal - 2019

University students represent nearly more than half of the youth population (age group of 15-24) in Turkey. Meanwhile, the latest demographic data shows that they will constitute a majority of the elder generation in the context of the recent rapid aging trend in the near future. That said, and...

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Public finance in the era of the COVID-19 crisis

Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022 - This Version: September 2022

several areas where more research is necessary. We highlight major changes and inequalities in the labor market and K-12 …

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Recall bias revisited : measure farm labor using mixed-mode surveys and multiple imputation

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Carletto, Calogero - 2022

-based alternative using mixed modes of data collection to obtain estimates on smallholder farm labor. Using data from Tanzania, we find …

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Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021

forced out of the labor force to care for children as prescribed by gender norms and the division and specialization of labor …

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Economics of Marriage Bars

Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert E. - 2021

A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women working in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. In the …, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK. Spill-overs to jobs not strictly covered by the Marriage Bar were also common. This … the introduction and the retention of Marriage Bars. The second is to provide a cross-country comparison of Marriage Bars …

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Impact of COVID-19 crisis on rural youth : evidence from a panel survey and an experiment

Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Bhatiya, Apurav Yash; Imbert, Clément - 2021

This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand between March 2020 and March 2021. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers...

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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021

of individuals-sample restrictions commonly used by labor economists are avoided. …

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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

The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...

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