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Do Labor Market Networks Have an Important Spatial Dimension?
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2013
We test for evidence of spatial, residence-based labor market networks. Turnover is lower for workers more connected to their neighbors generally and more connected to neighbors of the same race or ethnic group. Both results are consistent with networks producing better job matches, while the...
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The Potential Use of In-Home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys
Leicester, Andrew - 2013
. There is clear evidence that short-term diaries do not accurately capture household food spending patterns given infrequency …
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Appliance Ownership and Aspirations Among Electric Grid and Home Solar Households in Rural Kenya
Lee, Kenneth - 2016
summarize the results of a household electrical appliance survey and describe how households in rural Kenya differ in terms of …
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Report on the Development of Household Finance in Rural China (2014)
Gan, Li - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
1. Basic Situation of Rural Household -- 2. Rural Household Employment -- 3. Rural Household Income -- 4. Expenditures … of Rural Households -- 5. The Property of Rural Household -- 6. Current Development Status of Rural Financial Market -- 7 …. Formal Credit Demand and Availability of Rural Household -- 8. Financial Risks of Rural Households -- 9. Private Lending of …
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Joint-Search Theory : New Opportunities and New Frictions
Guler, Bulent - 2010
studies, from a theoretical viewpoint, the joint job-search and location problem of a household formed by a couple (e …
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The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya
Dupas, Pascaline; Keats, Anthony; Robinson, Jonathan - 2021
The welfare impact of expanding access to bank accounts depends on whether accounts crowd out pre-existing financial relationships, or whether private gains from accounts are shared within social networks. To study the effect of accounts on financial linkages, we provided free bank accounts to a...
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Incarceration Spillovers in Criminal and Family Networks
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2018
Using quasi-random assignment of criminal cases to judges, we estimate large incarceration spillovers in criminal and brother networks. When a defendant is sent to prison, there are 51 and 32 percentage point reductions in the probability his criminal network members and younger brothers will be...
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Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development
Melnikov, Nikita; Schmidt-Padilla, Carlos; Sviatschi, … - 2022
We study how territorial control by criminal organizations affects economic development. We exploit a natural experiment in El Salvador, where the emergence of these criminal organizations was the consequence of an exogenous shift in American immigration policy that led to the deportation of...
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The Role of Labour Mobility and Informal Networks for Knowledge Transfer
Fornahl, Dirk (contributor); Zellner, Christian (contributor) - 2005
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Economic stress, human capital, and families in Asia : research and policy challenges
Yeung, Wei-jun Jean (ed.) - 2013
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