Socioeconomic inequity in health is of concern in many developed countries. To reduce inequities, one first needs to establish which factors contribute to differences in health across individuals from different socioeconomic backgrounds. The health of children receives particular interest...

Socioeconomic inequity in health is of concern in many developed countries. To reduce inequities, one first needs to establish which factors contribute to differences in health across individuals from different socioeconomic backgrounds. The health of children receives particular interest...

Korean Abstract: 우리나라에 체류하고 있는 외국인의 수는 140만명을 넘었으며, 이 중 취업을 위해 정책적으로 도입된 외국인력은 대략 60여 만명이다. 현행 외국 인력정책 기조는, 비전문인력은 수요에 맞춰 도입하여 잘 관리한...

When a treatment in difference in differences (DD) is applied to a group of individuals with a time-constant qualifiÂ…cation/eligibility such as gender or race, there is no issue of choosing to be (un-)treated. But if the qualiÂ…fication is time-varying, then the individuals may alter...

This paper takes a fresh look, from a macro perspective, at the issue of aid effectiveness. An important point of departure for this study is that it adopts poverty reduction, as contrasted from economic growth, as the metric for measuring aid effectiveness. In conducting the empirical...

This paper studies strategic consumer shopping behavior in response to a macroeconomic policy in the case of currency reform, and quantifies its unintended consequences for retailers vis-a-vis the policy goal. Using transaction-level data from a large retail chain in India, we document consumer...

We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to...

For a better understanding of the ongoing debates on the RMB, this paper investigates the effects of exchange rate shocks on output and the current account for China and Japan. We use structural vector auto-regression models and find that yen appreciation reduces current account surpluses while...