information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals …This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

richer workers demand more low skill-intensive services (such as cleaning and personal services) but also more skill …-intensive services (such as education and professional services). The parametrization of a simple model suggests that this induced demand …

information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals …This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

search data to document how the great economic crisis has affected people's well-being and health studying the US, Germany …

Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to … cohorts to the fighting. The paper uniquely incorporates GPS information on the distance between survey villages and conflict …

We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …

, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of … preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is reviewed about the "situational specificity" of personality traits and …

occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …

health, including mental health. Three major findings come forward from this work. First, disasters appear to bring …, education, health and many income-generating processes. Furthermore, some of these detrimental effects are both large and long … role of accurate and reliable information to monitor risks and vulnerabilities, and identify the impacts and responses of …