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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity : The Experience of Afghan Households
D'Souza, Anna - 2012
Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...
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Food for Fuel : The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019
effect of the price shock on household welfare through consumption and wage incomes.Poor rural households suffer significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898125
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Can Intra-Regional Trade Act as a Global Shock Absorber in Africa?
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2015
The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to … African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) – suggests that deeper intra-regional, and in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016290
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The Long-Term Determinants of Female HIV Infection in Africa : The Slave Trade, Polygyny, and Sexual Behavior
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women …, with a focus on family structure and sexual behavior as shaped by the demographic shock following the transatlantic slave … polygyny with the demographic shock we can also establish that this link is causal. Next we turn to the channels through which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016394
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Aggregate Earnings and Macroeconomic Shocks : The Role of Labour Market Policies and Institutions
Bassanini, Andrea - 2012
I examine the effect of labour market policies and institutions on the transmission of macroeconomic shocks to the labour market, using both aggregate and industry-level annual data for 23 OECD countries, 23 business-sector industries and up to 29 years. I find that high and progressive labour...
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Quasi-Experimental Impact Estimates of Immigrant Labor Supply Shocks : The Role of Treatment and Comparison Group Matching and Relative Skill Composition
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2013
earlier waves of repatriates, which provides us a strong source of exogenous variation in the 1989 immigrant shock across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087423
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Transmission of US and EU Economic Policy Uncertainty Shock to Asian Economies in Bad and Good Times
Balcilar, Mehmet - 2020
This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...
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Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock : Evidence from Real Time Surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
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Effect of Enforcement Shock on Pushers' Activities : Evidence from an Asian Drug-Selling Gang
Leong, Kaiwen - 2019
We study a Singaporean drug-selling gang's dataset and empirically find that the gang's pushers purchased larger quantities of drugs during periods of enforcement shocks caused by enforcement activities targeting the gang's drug supply chain. This counter-intuitive finding can be explained by...
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Trade and Worker Deskilling
Dhingra, Swati - 2019
produced an unprecedentedly large shock to the UK exchange rate. In the 24 hours in June 2016 during which the UK electorate …
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