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The Long Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of Origin
Dinkelman, Taryn - 2016
We provide new evidence of one channel through which circular labor migration has long run effects on origin communities: by raising completed human capital of the next generation. We estimate the net effects of migration from Malawi to South African mines using newly digitized Census and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456625
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Long Run Health Repercussions of Drought Shocks : Evidence from South African Homelands
Dinkelman, Taryn - 2015
Drought is Africa's most prevalent natural disaster and is becoming an increasingly common source of income shocks around the world. This paper presents new evidence from Africa that droughts are an important component of long run variation in health human capital. I use Census data to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457228
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Temporary Investment Tax Incentives : Theory with Evidence from Bonus Depreciation
House, Christopher - 2006
Investment decisions are inherently forward-looking. The payoff of acquiring capital goods, particularly long …-lived capital goods, is governed almost exclusively by events in the far future. Because the timing of the investment itself does … not affect future payoffs, there are strong incentives to delay or accelerate investment to take advantage of predictable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466153
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Investment, Depreciation, And Capital Utilization
Bernstein, Jeffrey I. - 1988
interdependence with investment decisions. The approach is based on the view that the flow of undepreciated capital is an output to be …. Often this problem is ignored in the theory of investment, not only because depreciation is exogenous, but also due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476496
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Public Policy and Extended Families : Evidence from South Africa
Bertrand, Marianne - 2000
that the results are unlikely to be driven by increased human capital investment or by a need to stay home to care for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471175
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How Hungry is the Selfish Gene?
Case, Anne - 1999
We examine resource allocation in step-households, in the United States and South Africa, to test whether child investments vary according to economic and genetic bonds between parent and child. We used 18 years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471384
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Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Schools in South Africa
Case, Anne - 1999
This paper contributes to what is known about the impact of school quality, by documenting its effect on the incomes of Black South Africans, using data from the 1996 South African census and two national surveys of school quality. South Africa provides an interesting laboratory for studying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471386
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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on COVID-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration
Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Domestic mobility restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 are widespread in developing countries, and have trapped millions of migrant workers in hotspot cities. We show that bans can increase cumulative infections relative to a counterfactual sans restrictions. A SEIR model shows bans'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510577
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Large Fiscal Episodes and Sustainable Development : Some International Evidence
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Nguyen, Hien Thi Kim; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines the association between episodes of large fiscal impulses (expansions and adjustments) and sustainable development indicators (prosperity, resilience, and inclusivity). We provide country studies of Chile, Poland, South Africa, and Thailand, examining the components of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510619
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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustment in Botswana
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2019
We study the effects of domestic trade liberalization on labor markets in Botswana. South Africa is the dominant member of the Southern Africa Customs Union. As such, when South Africa liberalized trade in the 1990s, this induced large and plausibly exogenous tariff reductions for the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480271