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Mitra, Pritha; Pondi Endengle, Eric M.; Pant, Malika; … - 2020

Global attention to ending child marriage and its socio-economic consequences is gaining momentum. Ending child … marriage is not only critical from a development perspective but it also has important economic implications. This paper is the … first to quantify the relationship between child marriage and economic growth. Applying a simultaneous equations model, the …

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Does Spousal Labor Smooth Fluctuations in Husbands' Earnings? : The Role of Liquidity Constraints

Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes - 2004

This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the role of spousal labor in buffering transitory shocks to husbands'' earnings. To measure the amount of the shock that spousal labor absorbs, an instrumented cross-sectional variance decomposition is developed. Using data from the Panel...

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COVID-19 pandemic : asymmetric effects across gender and age

Caselli, Francesca; Grigoli, Francesco; Sandri, Damiano; … - 2020

Lockdowns and voluntary social distancing led to significant reduction in people's mobility. Yet, there is scant … evidence on the heterogeneous effects across segments of the population. Using unique mobility indicators based on anonymized … mobility of women and younger cohorts. Younger people also experienced a sharper drop in mobility in response to rising COVID …

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Migration, Human Capital, and Poverty in a Dual-Economy of a Developing Country

Masson, Paul R. - 2001

The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the acquisition of skills is costly and involves migration to urban areas. In this model, both the distribution of innate abilities and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration...

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Are African Households Heterogeneous Agents? : Stylized Facts on Patterns of Consumption, Employment, Income and Earnings for Macroeconomic Modelers

Fox, Louise - 2015

This paper reviews the evidence on how households in Sub-Saharan Africa segment along consumption, income and earning dimensions relevant for quantitative macroeconomic policy models which incorporate heterogeneity. Key findings include the importance of home-grown food in the income and...

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Are African households heterogeneous agents? : stylized facts on patterns of consumption, employment, income and earnings for macroeconomic modelers

Fox, Louise - 2015

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China’s labor market in the “new normal”

Lam, W. Raphael; Liu, Xiaoguang; Schipke, Alfred - 2015

As China implements reforms under the "new normal," maintaining stability in the labor market is a priority. The country's demography and labor dynamics are changing, after benefitting in past decades from ample cheap labor. So far, the labor market appears to be resilient, even as growth slows,...

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Protecting lives and livelihoods with early and tight lockdowns

Caselli, Francesca; Grigoli, Francesco; Lian, Weicheng; … - 2020

Using high-frequency proxies for economic activity over a large sample of countries, we show that the economic crisis during the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic was only partly due to government lockdowns. Economic activity also contracted because of voluntary social distancing in...

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The great divide : regional inequality and fiscal policy

Gbohoui, William; Lam, W. Raphael; Lledó, Victor D. - 2019

regions. The rise in inequality is related to declining incentives for interregional labor mobility, especially for poor …

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Hysteresis in Unemployment and Jobless Recoveries

Plotnikov, Dmitry - 2014

This paper develops and estimates a general equilibrium rational expectations model with search and multiple equilibria …

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