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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
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Immigrant workers and farm performance: Evidence from matched employer-employee data
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Aastrup … - 2013
Many developed countries have recently experienced a significant inflow of immigrants in the agricultural sector. At the same time, the sector is still in a process of structural transformation resulting in fewer but bigger and presumably more efficient farms. In this paper, we exploit detailed...
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The looks of a winner: beauty, gender and electoral success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have collected 16,218 assessments by 2,772 respondents of...
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Ugly criminals
Mocan, H. Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2006
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18 …
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The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad
Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman; … - 2023
Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...
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The gender education gap in China: the power of water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, William Stanley - 2009
household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …
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Got water? Social divisions and access to public goods in rural India
Balasubramaniam, Divya; Chatterjee, Santanu; Mustard, … - 2011
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to public goods usually aggregate different types of...
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The effect of deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised good and its substitutes: The case of over-the-counter weight loss products
Cawley, John H.; Avery, Rosemary J.; Eisenberg, Matthew - 2013
sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. …
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The earned income tax credit, health, and happiness
Boyd-Swan, Casey; Herbst, Chris M.; Ifcher, John; … - 2013
This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax … federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to mental health and subjective well-being. The identification strategy … suggest that the 1990 EITC reform generated sizeable health benefits for low-skilled mothers. Such women experienced lower …
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Health and labour income of wage earners and self-employed workers in Cameroon
Fomba Kamga, Benjamin; Kengne Kamga, Arline; Audibert, … - 2013
The objective of this paper is to assess the relationship between the health and the income from work of wage earners … and self-employed workers in Cameroon. Health status is measured by a self-assessment of an individual's health; and … a simultaneous equation model to explore the relationship between health and income, allowing for the endogeneity of …
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