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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector : How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2016

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers.The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

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Health and Labour Income of Wage Earners and Self-Employed Workers in Cameroon

Fomba Kamga, Benjamin - 2013

and self-employed workers in Cameroon. Health status is measured by a self-assessment of an individual's health; and … health, income, and selection into each employment status. The data used in this study is obtained from the 2007 Cameroon …

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Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms

Fomba Kamga, Benjamin - 2012

) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having more than 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 …

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Non-Parametric Inference for the Effect of a Treatment on Survival Times with Application in the Health and Social Sciences

DeLuna, Xavier - 2009

In this paper we perform inference on the effect of a treatment on survival times in studies where the treatment assignment is not randomized and the assignment time is not known in advance. Two such studies are discussed: a heart transplant program and a study of Swedish unemployed eligible for...

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The Perry Preschoolers at Late Midlife : A Study in Design-Specific Inference

Heckman, James J. - 2019

This paper presents the first analysis of the life course outcomes through late midlife (around age 55) for the participants of the iconic Perry Preschool Project, an experimental high-quality preschool program for disadvantaged African-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of...

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A Correction for Regression Discontinuity Designs with Group-Specific Mismeasurement of the Running Variable

Bartalotti, Otávio - 2019

When the running variable in a regression discontinuity (RD) design is measured with error, identification of the local average treatment effect of interest will typically fail. While the form of this measurement error varies across applications, in many cases the measurement error structure is...

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Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country : Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries

Boubtane, Ekrame - 2011

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the bootstrap panel Granger causality testing approach of Kónya (2006) that allows to test for causality on each individual country separably by accounting for...

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Testing for Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects in the Presence of a Quasi-Instrument

DeLuna, Xavier - 2012

The identification of average causal effects of a treatment in observational studies is typically based either on the unconfoundedness assumption or on the availability of an instrument. When available, instruments may also be used to test for the unconfoundedness assumption (exogeneity of the...

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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Partially Identified Treatment Effects Under Imperfect Compliance : The Case of Domestic Violence

Siddique, Zahra - 2009

During the 1980s a set of randomized experiments were carried out to determine the usefulness of a mandatory arrest policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was carried out in 1981. This paper re-examines the data...

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