We examine the causal impact of the 2002–2007 civil conflict in Côte d'Ivoire on children's health using household surveys collected before, during, and after the conflict, and information on the exact location and date of conflict events. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting both...

This paper analyzes the effect of resource-based economic specialization on women's labor market outcomes. Using information on the location and discovery of major oil fields in the Southern United States coupled with a county-level panel derived from US Census data for 1900-1940, we...

Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher...

Die Einschätzung hinsichtlich der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland hat sich auch wegen der Beobachtungen der Jahre nach 2009 deutlich geändert: Deutschland erwartet zumindest vorübergehend wieder eine steigende Bevölkerung. Schwierig abzuschätzen bleibt neben der europäischen Arbeitsmigration...

Vor dem Hintergrund der kurzfristigen strukturellen und mengenmäßigen Änderungen in der Flüchtlingszuwanderung sowie den Verhaltensanpassungen in der Flüchtlingspolitik wurde das GWS Discussion Paper 2015/17 aktualisiert. Insbesondere die Prognose und Langzeitabschätzungen wurden an den...

Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publiclysubsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...