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Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality
van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022
Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban areas. This concern is especially related to the influence of spatial inequalities on individual...
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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy : The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021
This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment promotion policy. While several recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321250
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Disease Environment and Civil Conflicts
Cervellati, Matteo - 2011
also suggest the potential relevance of a channel linking geography to economic development that has not been investigated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127319
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The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2021
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324836
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Geography and Employer Recruiting
Weinstein, Russell - 2017
I analyze whether reducing geographic distance to high-wage jobs increases access to those employment opportunities. I collect office locations and campus recruiting strategies for over 70 prestigious banking and consulting firms, from 2000 to 2013. Using an event-study framework, I find firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940833
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Un Interventions : The Role of Geography
Duque, Juan C. - 2014
This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a UN military intervention decreases by 4 percent. We are able to rule out several alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056248
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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Falk, Armin - 2011
Social preference research has received considerable attention among economists in recent years. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130435
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Neumark, David - 2010
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136716
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Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented : A Reexamination of the Evidence from the Highscope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J. - 2010
Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Significant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139709