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Does being Educated more than the Spouse give Women Higher Autonomy? Findings from India
This paper analyses the relation between women’s education relative to their spouse and their autonomy. Using a large-scale nationally representative...
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Amenities, Housing Affordability, and Education Elites
Education Elites (i.e., higher-educated people) with new ideas and technologies are widely acknowledged to be a source of innovation and the engine...
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Understanding Covid-19 Mobility Through Human Capital: A Unified Causal Framework
This paper seeks to identify the causal impact of educational human capital on social distancing behavior at workplace in Turkey using district-level...
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Rents and wages derived from spatial interaction analysis in Shanghai
Using the 1% National Population Sampling Survey, collected in 2015, this paper performs sensitivity analysis of the parameters in a spatial...
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The great divide: education, despair, and death
There is a growing gap across many measures between the one-third of the U.S. that has a B.A. degree or higher and the other two-thirds. This is most...
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Migration, education, technological change and growing urban inequality
The economic literature has been silent on two key channels regarding how innovation affects labor supply: skilled-worker migration and “local...
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Research on the Factors Affecting Mobility Rate Across States in the United States
Mobility rates contribute to social stability and development, so it is meaningful to study the factors that influence mobility rates. This paper...
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The Price of Flexible Jobs: Wage Differentials between Permanent and Flexible Jobs in the Netherlands
Employees with a flexible contract, i.e., those with either a temporary contract, temporary agency workers, or those on a contract with flexible...
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Potential unexpected effects of meat reduction in diet: Could educational attainment influence meat substitution strategies?
Regulation of meat consumption appears to be a relevant public policy to limit diet-related greenhouse gas emissions. However, the real impact of...
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The shifters of intrahousehold decision-making in European countries
This paper studies spouses’ intrahousehold decision-making, using unique information from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living...
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Differential fertility, school enrollment, and development
This paper develops a model wherein parents choose the number of children, enroll some children in school at indivisible education costs, and receive...
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The causal impact of mental health on tobacco and alcohol consumption: an instrumental variables approach
The reciprocal relationship between psychiatric and substance use disorders is well-known, yet it remains largely unknown whether mental health...
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Chasing opportunity? Inequality of opportunity and educational self-selection of interprovincial migrants in China
This paper investigates the effects of two different income inequality components, inequality of opportunity (IOP) and inequality of effort (IOE), on...
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Demographic impacts of China’s trade liberalization: marriage, spousal quality, and fertility
This study examines the effects of export tariff liberalization on women’s marriage and fertility choices in China. Utilizing a shift-share design...
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Unemployment Fluctuations in Urban Labour Market in India
Fluctuations in unemployment rate have been widely studied in developed countries. Lack of panel data, however, limited the scope of such studies in...
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Energy Consumption and Human Capital: Does Human Capital Stimulate Renewable Energy? The Case of Greece
This paper aims to empirically examine the relationship between energy consumption and human capital in Greece, using annual data from 1990 to 2021....
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The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 on labor market flows: evidence from administrative data
We investigate the short-term effects of COVID-19 on labor market flows and how they are mediated by labor market policy. Using Italian...
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Employment and global value chain participation: the Indian experience
The paper examines the impact of GVC participation and position on overall employment creation and skill composition of the Indian workforce during...
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Scarcity and consumers’ credit choices
We study the effect of scarcity on decision making by low income Swedes. We exploit the random assignment of welfare payments to study their...
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The influence of app function evolution on transport SuperApp use behaviour over time
In the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in smartphone apps that are designed to help users optimise their daily activities. As...
