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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London

Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

explanatory variable in the analysis of migration. Although correlated with other variables that are routinely used in …

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Post-1500 population flows and the long run determinants of economic growth and inequality

Putterman, Louis; Weil, David N. - 2008

different source countries in the year 1500. Using this matrix, we analyze how post-1500 migration has influenced the level of …'s territory, without adjusting for migration. Measures of the ethnic or linguistic heterogeneity of a country's current population …

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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Cannonier, Colin; Mocan, Naci - 2012

We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by date of birth and the variation in resources...

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The state of social protection for agrifood systems workers in West Africa

Perin, Gabriela; Dytz, João Pedro Bregolin; Sato, Lucas; … - 2022

This Working Paper discusses social protection systems and programmes across countries in West Africa, and the extent to which they consider the needs of agrifood system workers. It aims to show how agrifood system workers are included or excluded, the benefits that are relevant to them, and how...

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Migration Correlation: Definition and Efficient Estimation

Gagliardini, Patrick; Gourieroux, Christian - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2004

The aim of this paper is to explain why cross-sectional estimated migration correlations displayed in the academic and … a model with stochastic migration in which the parameters of interest, that are migration correlations, are precisely … defined. The impossibility of estimating consistently the migration correlations from cross-sectional data only is emphasized …

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Firm Migration and Stock Returns

Puopolo, Giovanni W. - Finrisk - 2009

This paper studies the asset pricing implications of a general equi-librium model in which real investment is reversible at a cost. Firmsface higher costs in contracting than in expanding their capital stockand decide to invest when their productive capital is scarce relativeto the overall...

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Ethnic fragmentation and police spending: social identity and a public good

Ajilore, Olugbenga; Smith, John - 2007

We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In this model, we assume that the decision to commit a crime is...

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Displacement, asymmetric information and heterogeneous human capital

Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher - 2008

In a seminal paper Gibbons and Katz (1991; GK) develop and empirically test an asymmetric information model of the labor market. The model predicts that wage losses following displacement should be larger for layouts than for plant closings, which was borne out by data from the Displaced Workers...

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Gender and ethnic wage gaps in Guatemala from a matching comparisons perspective

Ñopo, Hugo; Gonzales, Alberto - 2008

This paper analyzes gender and ethnic wage gaps in Guatemala for the period 2000-2006, applying a matching comparisons technique, finding pronounced wage gaps along both gender and ethnic dimensions, the latter being greater. Wage gaps in Guatemala are partially explained by differences in human...

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Establishing cooperation between groups: Ingroup versus outgroup punishment

Stoff, Christian - 2006

We analyse interethnic cooperation in an infinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma when members of one group are unable to target punishment towards individual defectors from the other group. We first show that indiscriminate outgroup punishment may sustain cooperation in this setting. Our main...

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