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, Ethiopia. We find that the program increased public employment and reduced private labor supply among beneficiaries and …
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Migration is one of the strategies used by populations to adapt to natural shocks and also to respond to economic …
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We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …
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How are natives attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more compassion towards migrants as everyone faces a common threat. Alternatively, natives prejudice could rise as competition for scarce economic opportunities increases. We conduct an online survey to...
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This study focuses on the social situation in carbon-intensive regions and the role of migration in defining its … quality. The analysis examines whether carbon-intensive areas, especially those with large outward migration, are more … decarbonisation and migration, which collectively exert a significant impact on the social conditions within EU regions. This …
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migration, as well as on local labor market outcomes. I leverage the introduction of FUNDEF, a large federal program that …
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school years) in four developing countries: Peru, Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam. Intercontinental evidence on the timing …
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We evaluate the impacts of a randomized job-fair intervention in which jobseekers and employers can meet at low cost. The intervention generates few hires, but it lowers participants' expectations and causes both firms and workers to invest more in search as predicted by a theoretical model;...
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Land-use changes involve important economic and environmental effects with implications for international trade, global climate change, wildlife, and other policy issues. We use an econometric model to identify factors driving land-use change in the United States between 1982 and 1997. We...
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Understanding land accumulation dynamics is relevant for policy makers interested in the economic effects of land inequality in developing country agriculture. We thus explore and simultaneously test the leading theories of microlevel land accumulation dynamics using unique panel data from...
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