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Downward Revision of Investment Decisions after Corporate Tax Hikes

Link, Sebastian; Menkhoff, Manuel; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2023

This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their...

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Do women manage smaller funds?

Hübler, Olaf; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2010

Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists only for managers of smaller funds, i.e. at the lower end of the hierarchy, as quantile...

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The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Flows to the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas; Davis, Rhona - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in the last two decades. However, the distribution of FDI is highly unequal and the competition among countries to attract foreign investors is fierce. This report investigates the determinants of FDI inflows to developing...

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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people are more likely to invest in the stock market....

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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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An Evaluation of the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design on PROGRESA

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2003

this paper we use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purposes of evaluating the impact of the PROGRESA …

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The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border

Gathmann, Christina - 2004

This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on...

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Aid and Migration : An Analysis of the Impact of Progresa on the Timing and Size of Labour Migration

Angelucci, Manuela - 2004

This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, considering alternatively the effect of unconditional and conditional cash transfers to financially constrained households. Data from the evaluation of a Mexican development program, Progresa, are used to estimate the effect...

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Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico

Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Villagomez, Elizabeth - 2000

We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico ?s Urban Employment Survey, a … quarterly household survey for urban Mexico. Two separate five-wave panels are used: the first covering a period of rapid …

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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …) are increasingly likely to depart from urban areas within Mexico. Although we find no direct evidence that the …

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