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Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums: An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data
Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017
services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653367
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Water scarcity and birth outcomes in the Brazilian semiarid
Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2012
concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and … sanitation). We also find that effects are stronger during the fetal period (2nd trimester of gestation), for children born …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287719
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Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid
Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and … sanitation). We also find that effects are stronger during the fetal period (2nd trimester of gestation), for children born …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098405
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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435271
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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959772
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Twelve Eyes See More Than Eight. Referee Bias and the Introduction of Additional Assistant Referees in Soccer
Verstraeten, Olivier; Baert, Stijn - 2019
We are the first to investigate whether the introduction of additional assistant referees in the UEFA Europa League (in season 2009-2010) and the UEFA Champions League (in season 2010-2011) was associated with lower referee bias. To this end, we analyse a unique database with pre- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005843
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Home Advantage in European International Soccer: Which Dimension of Distance Matters?
van Damme, Nils; Baert, Stijn - 2019
We investigate whether the home advantage in soccer differs by various dimensions of distance between the (regions of the) home and away teams: geographical distance, climatic differences, cultural distance, and disparities in economic prosperity. To this end, we analyse 2,012 recent matches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005844
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Player Dismissal and Full Time Results in the UEFA Champions League and Europa League
De Meyere, Arne; Vanruymbeke, Ward; Baert, Stijn - 2018
This study is the first to estimate the effects of the sending-off of a player on the full time results in international club soccer. To this end, we analyse data of more than 2,000 recent games in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. We find that when home teams receive a red card,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931687
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On the Role of Counterfactuals in Inferring Causal Effects of Treatments
Kluve, Jochen - 2001
Causal inference in the empirical sciences is based on counterfactuals. This paper presents the counterfactual account of causation in terms of Lewis's possible-world semantics, and reformulates the statistical potential outcome framework and its underlying assumptions using counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262562
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Ten do it better, do they? An empirical analysis of an old football myth
Caliendo, Marco; Radić, Dubravko - 2006
In this paper we investigate how the expulsion of a player influences the outcome of a football match. Common sense implies a negative impact for the affected team. However, an old football myth suggests that such an expulsion might also be beneficial since it increases the team spirit as well...
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