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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy among Ghana's Rural Poor Is Effective Regardless of Baseline Mental Distress

American Economic Review: Insights, 2022
We study the impact of group-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT ) for individuals selected from the general population of poor households in rural Ghana (N = 7,227).
N. Barker, G. Bryan, D. Karlan, A. Ofori-Atta, C. Udry   +4 more
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Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

Social Science Research Network
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics
Sascha O. Becker, Volker Lindenthal, S. Mukand, Fabian Waldinger   +3 more
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The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

The American Economic Review, 2019
In 2001, Norwegian tax records became easily accessible online, allowing everyone in the country to observe the incomes of everyone else. According to the income comparisons model, this change in transparency can widen the gap in well-being between ...
Ricardo Perez-Truglia
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The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019
Past research documents the persistence of positive impacts of early life interventions on noncognitive skills. We test the symmetry of this finding by studying the persistence of a sizeable negative shock to noncognitive outcomes arising with the ...
Michael Baker, Jonathan Gruber, Kevin Milligan   +2 more
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Effects of Extending Paid Parental Leave on Children's Socio-Emotional Skills and Well-Being in Adolescence

Social Science Research Network
IZA DP No. 15421 JULY 2022 Effects of Extending Paid Parental Leave on Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills and Well-Being in Adolescence* We study how children’s socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the ...
M. Houmark, C. Jørgensen, I. Kristiansen, Miriam Gensowski   +3 more
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Measuring Absolute Income Mobility: Lessons from North America and Europe

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
We use linked parent–child administrative data for five countries in North America and Europe, as well as detailed survey data for two more, to investigate methodological challenges in the estimation of absolute income mobility. We show that the commonly
Robert A. Manduca, Maximilian Hell, Adrian Adermon, J. Blanden, E. Bratberg, A. C. Gielen, H. van Kippersluis, Keunbok Lee, S. Machin, M. Munk, Martin Nybom, Y. Ostrovsky, Sumaiya Rahman, Outi Sirniö   +13 more
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Entrepreneurs’ thriving after venture distress: The role of self-compassion, learning, and venture failure

Business Research Quarterly
Well-being is important to entrepreneurs, yet entrepreneurship does not necessarily foster well-being. Stressful work conditions such as venture distress might put entrepreneurs’ well-being under pressure.
Karlien Coppens, Mirjam Knockaert
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Aging, Output Per Capita, and Secular Stagnation

American Economic Review: Insights, 2018
This paper re-examines the relationship between population aging and economic growth. We confirm previous research such as Cutler et al. (1990) and Acemoglu and Restrepo (2017) that show positive correlation between population aging and per capita output
Gauti B. Eggertsson, M. Lancastre, L. Summers   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Impact of Improving Access to Support Services for Victims of Domestic Violence on Demand for Services and Victim Outcomes

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
We conducted a randomized controlled trial of an intervention designed to assist victims of domestic violence in accessing nonpolice support services. The intervention led to a 22 percent decrease in the fraction of victims providing a witness statement ...
Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, Jesse Matheson, Réka Plugor   +2 more
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EFFECT OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME ON THE AFFORDABILITY OF HOUSING IN NAKURU EAST AND NAKURU WEST SUB-COUNTIES, NAKURU COUNTY, KENYA

European Journal of Economic and Financial Research
This study investigated the impact of household income on housing affordability for low-income households in Nakuru East and West Sub-Counties, Kenya.
S. Korir, John Boiywo
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