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Water scarcity and birth outcomes in the Brazilian semiarid
Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2012
concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and … sanitation). We also find that effects are stronger during the fetal period (2nd trimester of gestation), for children born …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287719
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Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid
Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and … sanitation). We also find that effects are stronger during the fetal period (2nd trimester of gestation), for children born …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098405
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Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums: An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data
Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017
services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653367
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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435271
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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959772
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On the Role of Counterfactuals in Inferring Causal Effects of Treatments
Kluve, Jochen - 2001
Causal inference in the empirical sciences is based on counterfactuals. This paper presents the counterfactual account of causation in terms of Lewis's possible-world semantics, and reformulates the statistical potential outcome framework and its underlying assumptions using counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262562
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Ten do it better, do they? An empirical analysis of an old football myth
Caliendo, Marco; Radić, Dubravko - 2006
In this paper we investigate how the expulsion of a player influences the outcome of a football match. Common sense implies a negative impact for the affected team. However, an old football myth suggests that such an expulsion might also be beneficial since it increases the team spirit as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276313
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Twelve Eyes See More Than Eight. Referee Bias and the Introduction of Additional Assistant Referees in Soccer
Verstraeten, Olivier; Baert, Stijn - 2019
We are the first to investigate whether the introduction of additional assistant referees in the UEFA Europa League (in season 2009-2010) and the UEFA Champions League (in season 2010-2011) was associated with lower referee bias. To this end, we analyse a unique database with pre- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005843
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Home Advantage in European International Soccer: Which Dimension of Distance Matters?
van Damme, Nils; Baert, Stijn - 2019
We investigate whether the home advantage in soccer differs by various dimensions of distance between the (regions of the) home and away teams: geographical distance, climatic differences, cultural distance, and disparities in economic prosperity. To this end, we analyse 2,012 recent matches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005844
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Improving the Peer Review Process: A Proposed Market System
Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016
The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...
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