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Why guarantee employment? : evidence from a large Indian public-works program

Zimmermann, Laura - 2020

Most countries around the world implement some form of a safety net program for poor households. A widespread concern is that such programs crowd out private-sector jobs. But they could also improve workers' welfare by allowing them to take on more risk, for example through self-employment. This...

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Did the nation-wide implementation of e-FMS in MGNREGS result in reduced expenditures? : a reexamination of the evidence

Goel, Deepti; Meenakshi, J. V.; Souza, Zaeen de - 2022

This paper revisits a part of the analysis by Banerjee et al. (2020), in which they examine the consequences of the nation-wide scale up of reforms to the funds management system (e-FMS) in India's national workfare programme, using a two-way fixed effects specification. They report a...

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Telecare and elderly mortality : evidence from Italian municipalities

Matteuccia, Nicola; Picchio, Matteo; Santolini, Raffaella; … - 2025

average elderly mortality rate in the treated municipalities. The reduction in the elderly mortality rate was greater in … municipalities with a large proportion of childless elderly people, suggesting that telecare may be particularly useful for the … elderly who find it more difficult to rely on strong family ties. Moreover, it was stronger in small municipalities …

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Elite school designation and house prices : quasi-experimental evidence from Beijing, China

Huang, Bin; He, Xiaoyan; Xu, Lei; Zhu, Yu - 2018

We explore three recent comprehensive reforms which aim to equalize access to elite elementary schools in Beijing, to identify the causal effect of access to quality education on house prices. Using property transaction records from Beijing in 2013 and 2016, we construct a balanced panel of...

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The quasi-market of employment services in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2019

This paper aims to study the shortcomings and merits of the first experiment of quasi-market in the provision of employment services: the Lombardy DUL (Dote Unica Lavoro). This system, which has inspired the 2015 national reform within the Jobs Act, has reactivated and revitalized the sector by...

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School racial segregation and late-life cognition

Lin, Zhuoer; Wang, Yi; Gill, Thomas M.; Chen, Xi - 2024

Disparities in cognition persist between non-Hispanic Black (hereafter, Black) and non-Hispanic White (hereafter, White) older adults, and are possibly influenced by early educational differences stemming from structural racism. However, the relationship between school racial segregation and...

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Impact of early childcare on immigrant children's educational performance

Corazzini, Luca; Meschi, Elena; Pavese, Caterina - 2019

municipalities as an instrument for individual early childcare attendance. Our results point out that the effect of early childcare …

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Measuring the value of rent stabilization and understanding its implications for racial inequality : evidence from New York City

Chen, Ruoyu; Jiang, Hanchen; Quintero, Luis E. - 2022

Assessing rent discounts implied by rent regulation is challenging because the counterfactual rents of regulated units in the unregulated market are not observed. We estimate these counterfactual rents and predict the quality-adjusted rent discount for each rent-stabilized unit in New York City...

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Act early to prevent infections and save lives : causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic

Chen, Simiao; Jin, Zhangfeng; Vollmer, Sebastian; … - 2021

This paper examines the causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Using an instrumental variable approach, we show that a 1-day decrease in the time taken to confirm the first case in a city publicly led to 9.4% and 12.7% reductions in COVID-19 prevalence and...

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Role of professionalism in response to the COVID-19 pandemic : does a public health or medical background help?

Li, Xun; Lai, Weizheng; Wan, Qianqian; Chen, Xi - 2021

In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy response and performance for disease control and prevention within and across nations. It remains unclear to what extent these variations may be explained by bureaucrats'...

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