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Autor:
Murat Iyigun, Jeanne Lafortune
Publikováno v:
Journal of Labor Economics. 41:245-289
Autor:
Francisco Gallego, Jeanne Lafortune
Publikováno v:
Journal of Population Economics. 36:295-320
This paper uses international commodity prices and local natural resource endowments as a source of plausibly exogenous variation in local Chilean economic conditions to study how these shocks impact fertility behavior of families in a small, emergin
Autor:
Monserrat Bustelo, Ana Maria Diaz, Jeanne Lafortune, Claudia Piras, Luz Magdalena Salas, José Tessada
Publikováno v:
Economic Development and Cultural Change. :000-000
Publikováno v:
Economic Development and Cultural Change.
This paper estimates returns to scale for manufacturing industries around the turn of the twentieth century in the United States by exploiting an industry-city panel data for the years 1880-1930. We estimate decreasing returns to scale on average ove
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::af2311229a89bb1440c3a1e9be2a5ca3
https://doi.org/10.3386/w28633
https://doi.org/10.3386/w28633
We use city-industry data from 1890 to 1940 to identify the impact of electricity on manufacturing. We exploit cross-industry variation in pre-electricity energy intensity combined with geographic variation in proximity to early hydroelectric power p
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::bc2522f8b223cd32c44cd415d1da2dbf
https://doi.org/10.3386/w28076
https://doi.org/10.3386/w28076
Autor:
Luz Magdalena Salas, José Tessada, Claudia Piras, Jeanne Lafortune, Monserrat Bustelo, Ana María Díaz Escobar
We conducted a discrete choice experiment to elicit revealed preferences of low-income women for job flexibility. We did so without deception reversing the methodology proposed by Kessler et al. (2019) for job seekers. We contrast the role of flexibl
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::7b23530b2afa5799db460085380ba83d
https://doi.org/10.18235/0002286
https://doi.org/10.18235/0002286
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Childcare subsidies often attempt to allow low income families to work, but a problem arises when they generate unforeseen negative general equilibrium consequences. This paper focuses on a law in Chile that forces firms with more than 19 female work
Publikováno v:
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 10:222-245
Using a randomized experiment in Chile, we study the impact role models have in the context of a training program for micro–entrepreneurs. We show that being in a group randomly chosen to be visited by a successful alumnus of the program increases