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Sixty years after the magic carpet ride : the long-run effect of the early childhood environment on social and economic outcomes
Gould, Eric D.; Lavy, Victor; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003835768
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Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes
Gould, Eric D. (contributor); Lavy, Victor (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003692561
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Sixty years after the magic carpet ride : the long-run effect of the early childhood environment on social and economic outcomes
Gould, Eric D.; Lavy, Victor; Paserman, Marco Daniele - In: The review of economic studies 78 (2011) 3, pp. 938-973
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009234529
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Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride : The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes
Gould, Eric D. - 2009
This paper estimates the effect of the childhood environment on a large array of social and economic outcomes lasting almost 60 years, for both the affected cohorts and for their children. To do this, we exploit a natural experiment provided by the 1949 Magic Carpet operation, where over 50,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463763
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What Explains the Wealth Gap between Immigrants and the New Zealand Born?
Gibson, John - 2007
Immigrants are typically found to have less wealth and hold it in different forms than the native born. These differences may affect both the economic assimilation of immigrants and overall portfolio allocation when immigrants are a large share of the population, as in New Zealand. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012728941
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War and stature : growing up during the Nigerian civil war
Akresh, Richard; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Leone, Marinella; … - 2011
The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523516
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War and Stature : Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War
Akresh, Richard - 2011
The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117195
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Relative Deprivation and Well-Being of the Rural Youth
Sakketa, Takalign; Gerber, Nicolas - 2021
Relative income deprivation is one mechanism through which income or wealth inequality is hypothesized to affect human … deprivation (RD) from income per se, to consider social relative deprivation as well as assets (nonmonetary) relative deprivation …. Since the effects of relative deprivation on well-being are also sensitive to the kind of measurements employed, the study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227664
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When are ghettos bad? : Lessons from immigrant segregation in the United States
Cutler, David M. (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712726
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When are ghettos bad? : Lessons from immigrant segregation in the United States
Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Vigdor, Jacob L. - 2007
Recent literature on the relationship between ethnic or racial segregation and outcomes has failed to produce a consensus view of the role of ghettos; some studies suggest that residence in an enclave is beneficial, some reach the opposite conclusion, and still others imply that any relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003467426