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Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if...
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Violence against children, especially trafficking, is a global concern. This paper proposes that nearby educational institutions can help reduce such violence. Using a quasi-experiment in China from 1999, where university campuses were exogenously established, the study shows that these...
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This paper investigates the relationship between the spatial distribution of occupations with a high content of peer interactions and wages among Italian provinces. At this aim, we use a unique employer-employee dataset obtained by merging administrative data on wages and labor market histories...
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Residential satisfaction depends on housing and neighborhood conditions in addition to housing cost affordability. To determine the relative importance of these factors, their average effect is usually estimated using sample data, eventually split in sub-samples in order to represent social...
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This paper empirically examines the causal effects of population concentration on household consumption in China and explores the underlying mechanisms. After addressing endogeneity concerns from various sources, our results show that a 1% increase in urban population density leads to a 0.43...
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Tourism influences local economies through direct, indirect, and induced effects. Using novel firm-to-firm transaction data, we shed light on tourism's indirect effects. We find that tourism firms primarily source inputs locally or from the capital, with limited purchases from distant, poorer...
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This research examines the effect of internally displaced persons (IDPs) resettlement on the anthropometric outcomes of the host community's children in Nigeria. Our identification strategy characterizes affected children based on distance heterogeneities between the household and the closest...
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We estimate the impact of temperature extremes on mortality in Vietnam, using daily data on temperatures and monthly data on mortality during the 2000-2018 period. We find that both cold and heat waves cause higher mortality, particularly among older people. This effect on mortality tends to be...
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This paper studies human-capital spillovers and its persistence by exploiting a unique event in modern China
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Existing literature has largely overlooked the relationship between excessive tourism growth and international emigration. This study addresses this gap by analyzing Croatia, a country that experienced a significant population decline-losing 10% of its inhabitants between the 2011 and 2021...
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