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The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition
fertility infant mortality education and sanitary reform women’s participation education 19th century and early 20th century Britain
2012/10/22
At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was roughly halfway through a 60-year demographic transition with declining infant mortality and birth rates. Cities exhibited great and strongly corr...
Labor Market Impacts of a Large-Scale Public Works Program: Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme
public works program National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme NREGA NREGS India regression discontinuity design
2012/10/22
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National...
Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam
arranged marriage education schooling freedom of choice development Vietnam Red River delta labour markets social interactions
2012/10/22
Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use war disruptions and spatial indicators of schooling supply as instruments. The po...
Constrained Firms, Not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises
micro and small enterprises credit constraints risk risk aversion firm growth Peru
2012/10/22
We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but...
Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
immigration lottery natural experiment subjective well-being Tonga Pacific Islands
2012/10/22
Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on sub...
What Determines Religious School Choice? Theory and Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
school choice madrasah education Bangladesh
2012/10/22
This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered Islamic and non-religious schools. We consider a two period framework where chil...
Does Money Burn Fat? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
randomized experiment financial incentives for weight loss obesity nonrandom sample attrition effect heterogeneity
2012/10/22
We test whether financial incentives have an effect on weight reduction in a randomized controlled trial involving 700 obese persons assigned to three experimental groups. While two treatment groups o...
Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries
labor force participation rates structural change stationarity
2012/10/23
This paper shows that the structural breaks are an important characteristic of the monthly labor force participation rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogen...
Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Policy Change in Kenya
fertility education Kenya
2012/10/23
This paper investigates the relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting a 1985 policy change in Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables appro...
Recent Longitudinal Evidence of Size and Union Threat Effects across Genders
size effect threat effect random effects fringe benefits compensation gender union-nonunion
2012/10/23
Based on data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth covering years 2000 through 2008, it is evident that both male and female workers in medium/larger establishments receive not only higher ...
Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform
difference-in-differences sickness-related absence Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) statutory sick pay trade union membership
2012/10/23
In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model ...
Subcontracting and the Size and Composition of the Informal Sector: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing
informal sector formal sector subcontracting manufacturing India
2012/10/23
This paper analyzes the relationship between formal sector subcontracting and the evolution of the informal sector using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for t...
Extending Becker's Time Allocation Theory to Model Continuous Time Blocks: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time
time allocation continuous time blocks daylight saving time
2012/10/23
Most activities in life require a certain amount of continuous time. Yet, in the traditional economic model of time allocation, the time block is not taken into account. Hence, the same amount of util...
Spouses' Retirement and Hours Outcomes: Evidence from Twofold Regression Discontinuity with Differences-in-Differences
CNRS Sorbonne Economics Research Center Paris 1 University IZA and OFCE Sciences-Po
2012/10/22
Earlier studies conclude that spouses' retirement strategies are not independent from each other and that policies affecting individuals in a couple are also likely to affect the economic behaviour of...
Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children: Evidence from Urban China
pension education expenditure gender difference urban China
2012/10/22
When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial support decreases; and their need to save for retirement also falls. We use the ex...