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waves to estimate how regional population reacts to asymmetric shocks. These shocks are measured by non-employment rates … regions as identifying information. Because we include region and time effects, we interpret regression-adjusted population … changes as proxies for regional migration. Comparing the results with those for the United States and the European Union, the …
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This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration byeducational attainment. We …
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This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …
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examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …
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migration on sending families. We report the results of an experimentdesigned to compare the performance of three alternative …
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Social science research has stressed the important role of religion in sustaining cooperation among non-kin. We contribute to this literature with a large-scale empirical study documenting the relationship between religion and cooperation. We analyze newly available, experimentally validated,...
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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …
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There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among comparable households. We...
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We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our … population and employment growth, but no significant impact on nonmetropolitan counties. In contrast, the fragmentation of … general-purpose governments per capita has a negative impact on employment and population growth in nonmetropolitan counties …
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This paper utilizes a cross-country panel of 83 developing countries to examine how changes in cohort size are correlated with subsequent employment outcomes for workers at different ages. The results depend on countries' level of development. In low-income countries, young adults that are born...
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