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Why Guarantee Employment? Evidence from a Large Indian Public-Works Program

Zimmermann, Laura - 2020

Most countries around the world implement some form of a safety net program for poor households. A widespread concern is that such programs crowd out private-sector jobs. But they could also improve workers' welfare by allowing them to take on more risk, for example through self-employment. This...

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Did the nation-wide implementation of e-FMS in MGNREGS result in reduced expenditures? A re-examination of the evidence

Goel, Deepti; Meenakshi, J. V.; De Souza, Zaeen - 2022

This paper revisits a part of the analysis by Banerjee et al. (2020), in which they examine the consequences of the nation-wide scale up of reforms to the funds management system (e-FMS) in India's national workfare programme, using a two-way fixed effects specification. They report a...

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Telecare and Elderly Mortality: Evidence from Italian Municipalities

Matteucci, Nicola; Picchio, Matteo; Santolini, Raffaella; … - 2025

average elderly mortality rate in the treated municipalities. The reduction in the elderly mortality rate was greater in … municipalities with a large proportion of childless elderly people, suggesting that telecare may be particularly useful for the … elderly who find it more difficult to rely on strong family ties. Moreover, it was stronger in small municipalities …

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The quasi-market of employment services in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2019

This paper aims to study the shortcomings and merits of the first experiment of quasi-market in the provision of employment services: the Lombardy DUL (Dote Unica Lavoro). This system, which has inspired the 2015 national reform within the Jobs Act, has reactivated and revitalized the sector by...

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Elite School Designation and House Prices - Quasi-experimental Evidence from Beijing, China

Huang, Bin; He, Xiaoyan; Xu, Lei; Zhu, Yu - 2018

We explore three recent comprehensive reforms which aim to equalize access to elite elementary schools in Beijing, to identify the causal effect of access to quality education on house prices. Using property transaction records from Beijing in 2013 and 2016, we construct a balanced panel of...

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Geographic Variation in Inpatient Care Utilization, Outcomes and Costs for Dementia Patients in China

Lin, Zhuoer; Ba, Fang; Allore, Heather; Liu, Gordon G.; … - 2022

Dementia leads public health issue worldwide. China has the largest population of adults living with dementia in the world, imposing increasing burdens on the public health and healthcare systems. Despite improved access to health services, inadequate and uneven dementia management remains...

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COVID-19 Lockdown, Home Environment, Lifestyles, and Mental Health among Preschoolers in China

Zhang, Yunting; Zhao, Jin; Yu, Zhangsheng; Wang, Guanghai; … - 2024

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai implemented lockdown measures to stop transmission of the virus. Over 26 million residents, including 0.8 million children aged 3-6, were confined at home. This study leveraged a city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai...

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Early-Life Circumstances and Racial Disparities in Cognition for Older Americans: The Importance of Educational Quality and Experiences

Lin, Zhuoer; Ye, Justin; Allore, Heather; Gill, Thomas M.; … - 2024

Given the critical role of neurocognitive development in early life, this study assesses how racial differences in early-life circumstances are collectively and individually associated with racial disparities in late-life cognition. Leveraging uniquely rich information on life history from the...

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Place of Birth and Cognitive Function among Older Americans: Findings from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2024

Growing evidence suggests that place of birth (PoB) and related circumstances may have long-lasting and multiplicative contributions to various later-life outcomes. This study investigates the extent to which PoB contributes to a wide range of domains of later-life cognitive function. Leveraging...

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Short-Run Health Consequences of Retirement and Pension Benefits: Evidence from China

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019

This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...

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