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We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...
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avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …
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fundamental questions--and how it is starting to help solve problems such as poverty and global warming. A lively and entertaining … understanding real human behavior. Using insights from psychology, evolution, and complexity, economists are revolutionizing efforts … starting to be realized--in areas such as resource auctions, pollution-credit trading, and monetary policy. <i>The Soulful …
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distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... … measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard …
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