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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. …

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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

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Migration, transfers and child labor

Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015

the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …

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Cross-national differences in income poverty among Europe´s 50+

Hallberg, Daniel - 2006

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in...

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Birth weight and family status revisited: evidence from Austrian register data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2011

In this paper, we study the socio-economic determinants of birth weight with a focus on the mother's family status. We use Austrian birth register data covering all births between 1984 and 2007 and find that a mother's marriage is associated with a higher birth weight of the newborn in a range...

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The influence of ancestral lifeways on individual economic outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Putterman, Louis; Weil, David N. - 2016

We explore the role of an individual's historical lineage in determining economic status, holding constant his or her current location. This is complementary to the more common approach to studying how history shapes economic outcomes across locations. Motivated by a large literature in social...

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Relative status and satisfaction

Boes, Stefan; Staub, Kevin E.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic status, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and income rank as an indicator of status. The results show that children appear to compare their actual economic status with...

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Conspicuous consumption and satisfaction

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2011

Traditional tools of welfare economics identify the envy-related welfare loss from conspicuous consumption only under very strong assumptions. Measured income and life satisfaction offers an alternative for estimating such consumption externalities. The approach is developed in the context of...

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Does the John Bates Clark Medal boost subsequent productivity and citation success?

Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Torgler, Benno - 2013

Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This paper investigates whether a specific, yet important, award in economics, the John Bates Clark Medal, raises recipients' subsequent research activity and status compared to a...

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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: Evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers

Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011

In this paper, we test for the existence of socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on labor market outcomes using register data on the total population of Swedish workers. We estimate fixed effect models and use unexpected hospitalizations as a measure of health shocks. Our...

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