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We evaluate the distributional consequences of social distancing for the case of Spanish regions. Under 2 months of lockdown plus 10 months of partial functioning our study consistently finds potential wage losses that are sizeable and uneven across the wage distribution all around Spain, but...
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This paper studies the effects of each U.S. recession since 1973 on local labor markets. We find that recession-induced declines in employment are permanent, suggesting that local areas experience permanent declines in labor demand relative to less-affected areas. Population also falls,...
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We study Chile’s labor market responses to trade shocks during 1996-2006, exploiting spatial and time variations in trade exposure arising from initial differences in industry specialization across local labor markets and the evolution of shocks across industries. We take advantage of...
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the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income … elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the shock-induced loss in purchasing power had an immediate effect on …
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This study investigates the impacts of negative economic shocks on child schooling in households of rural Malawi, one of the poorest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Two waves of household panel data for years 2006 and 2008 from the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH)...
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Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...
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shock reduces investments in children, it may have long-lasting implications on the children's future socioeconomic status …-2000, this paper studies how a severe parental health shock affects children's school achievements. We use coarsened exact … survival rates to measure the size of the health shock. We findrobust negative effects of a parental health shock on children …
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, informs about important policy reforms following the PISA shock in 2000. It further gives a description of the current …
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