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that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in …
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In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...
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focusing mainly on the context of the country under analysis and the identification strategies employed. I then estimate the …
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population wide estimate of the rental rate of human capital. To illustrate heterogeneity in the production of human capital, we …
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income on independent living as well as considerable heterogeneity. The elderly with easy access to their adult children …
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Mechanisms to overcome social dilemmas provide incentives to maximize efficiency. However, often – such as when agents are heterogeneous – there is a trade-off between efficiency and equality. Agents' concerns for equality in such instances can limit the ability of mechanisms to promote...
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conclusions change dramatically after allowing for heterogeneity in effects. …
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particular, we test whether decision makers in multi-stage tournaments take heterogeneity induced changes of continuation values …
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effects and (ii) unobserved worker heterogeneity in terms of the inherent cost of maintaining connections within a productive … informal network. The model predicts that a greater degree of unobserved heterogeneity tilts the estimates toward producing a … contact methods and wage offers requires a careful assessment of the unobserved heterogeneity and peer influences in the …
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. Focusing on English, we also explore the heterogeneity in returns to different levels of proficiency by frequency of English …
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