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Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal; … - 2021

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … willing to pay money to override their children's choices. Parental interference predicts more intensive parenting styles and …

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Mending the Gap : Apparel Export Prices and the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh

Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2022

Are the wage gains from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? In the language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th...

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Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States

Lin, Carl - 2013

Using 1990, 2000 censuses and a 2010 survey, I examine the economic performance of ethnically Chinese immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been escalating in contrast to other immigrants. I show these...

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'Teaching to Teach' Literacy

Machin, Stephen J. - 2016

in the mid-2000s about how children are taught to read.We conceptualise this as a shock to the education production … intensive support to estimate the effect of the new 'teaching technology' on children's educational attainment. We find there to … be effects of the teaching technology ('synthetic phonics') at age 5 and 7. However, by the age of 11, other children …

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Why are Pollution Damages Lower in Developed Countries? Insights from High-Income, High-Particulate Matter Hong Kong

Colmer, Jonathan; Lin, Dajun; Liu, Siying; Shimshack, Jay - 2021

Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less-developed countries because they are highly polluted. Using administrative data on the universe of births and deaths, we explore birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate...

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One Country, Two Systems : Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China

Giles, John; Lei, Xiaoyan; Wang, Gewei; Wang, Stephen Yafeng - 2021

This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between urban and rural residents, the paper shows that China's...

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Gift Exchange within a Firm:Evidence from a Field Experiment

Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a treeplantingfirm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of treeplanters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable topast planting...

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Motivations for Remittances : Evidence from Moldova

Piracha, Matloob - 2011

This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have migrants abroad. Unlike most of the existing literature, we approach our research question from the perspective of the recipient household and use it to interpret the...

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Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives : Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets

Rebitzer, James B. - 2010

agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …

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Xenophobic Attacks, Migration Intentions and Networks : Evidence from the South of Africa

Friebel, Guido - 2011

household heads with many children younger than 15 years, decreasing the migration intention by 11% points. Most importantly …, the sensitivity of migration intentions is highest for those household heads with many young children whose families have … insurance against the consequences young children suffer in case the household head would be harmed by xenophobic violence and …

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