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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
immigration lottery natural experiment subjective well-being Tonga Pacific Islands
2012/10/22
Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on sub...
Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters
natural disasters risk aversion development
2012/10/23
We study whether natural disasters affect risk-taking behavior exploiting geographic variation in exposure to natural disasters. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selecte...
Diversity and Public Goods: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation
fractionalization public goods collective action discrimination
2012/10/22
This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and...
Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration: An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries
climate change natural disasters migration
2012/10/24
The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by examining migration rates and levels of education in developing countries. Many ...
The Recent Evolution of the Natural Rate of Unemployment
equilibrium unemployment Beveridge curve structural unemployment mismatch
2012/10/26
The U.S. economy is recovering from the financial crisis and ensuing deep recession, but the unemployment rate has remained stubbornly high. Some have argued that the persistent elevation of unemploym...
Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain
mother’s labor supply preschool children childcare quasi-natural experiment differences-in-differences-in-differences
2012/10/25
Reconciling work and family is high on many governments' agenda, especially in countries, such as Spain, with record-low fertility and female labor force participation rates. This paper analyzes the e...
Estimating Labor Supply Responses and Welfare Participation: Using a Natural Experiment to Validate a Structural Labor Supply Model
labor supply welfare participation unobserved heterogeneity natural experiment regression discontinuity microsimulation
2012/10/30
In this paper, we formulate and estimate an economic model of labor supply and welfare participation. The model is estimated on data on single men from Quebec drawn from the 1986 Canadian Census. Budg...
Altruism in Society: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Commuters
altruism social interaction social discrimination status peer effects commuters
2012/10/31
We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected traffic intersections in the city of Brisbane, Australia. By observing real deci...
Union Threat and Non-Union Employment: A Natural Experiment on the Use of Temporary Employment in British Firms
temporary employment uni on threat difference in difference
2012/10/31
This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the effect of the threat of unionisation on the use of a predominantly non-union type of employment, i.e. temporary employment. The identification s...
Does Gender Matter for Academic Promotion? Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment
academic promotion gender discrimination randomized natural experiment
2012/11/1
Several countries have recently introduced gender quotas in hiring and promotion committees at universities. This paper studies whether these policies increase the presence of women in top academic po...
Evaluation of Inhibitory Effects of Spice-Derived Natural Extracts on Histidine Decarboxylase
histidine decarboxylase histamine inhibition spice
2009/8/18
This study examines the inhibitory activity of spice extracts on histidine decarboxylase which synthesizes histamine, a bioactive amine participating in gastrointestinal ulcer and allergy ailments. It...
Industry productivity in natural and processed cheese
Industry productivity processed cheese technological improvements
2009/5/7
Sustained demand, technological improvements in manufacturing, the use of computers, and a better use of marketing contributed to a rise in productivity over the 1972-90 period. This article examines ...
Adjustment Dynamics and the Natural Rate: An Account of UK Unemployment
Unemployment natural rate hypothesis labour markets employment
2013/10/17
This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirica...