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potential mechanisms, including health behaviors, lifestyles, earnings, work conditions, and health at the start of the risk …
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diffusion of internet access in the late 1990?s. Which types of persons incorporated the internet into their job search strategy … internet job search derived from the December 1998 and August 2000 CPS Computer and Internet Supplements, matched with job … search outcomes from subsequent CPS files. We find that internet searchers are positively selected on observables, but …
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We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret …
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Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables and fixed effect estimates show that internet use is associated … highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on …
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While the Internet has been found to reduce trading frictions in a number of other markets, existing research has … found that Internet job search (IJS) was associated with longer unemployment durations in 1998/2000 - using comparable data … about 25 percent. This finding is robust to controls for workers' AFQT scores and detailed indicators of Internet access …
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This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative …
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Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We find that being overqualified in this way does not reduce the success rates of...
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This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...
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Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political priorities of the international community, yet the costs of reaching this objective are very high. The present paper examines whether the objective and the associated costs are...
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There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...
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