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15 de Enero, 2014
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Alex Armand of the University College London presented his research titled "Who wears the trousers in the family? Intra-household resource control, subjective expectations and human capital investment" at the NCID. The paper looked at the results of a conditional cash transfer program in the Republic of Macedonia. The aim of the program was to improve secondary school enrolment among children from poor households.

“Although earlier studies showed that targeting payments to mothers affects human capital investment, there is no clear consensus as to the precise mechanism...

14 de Enero, 2014
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“How does low skilled immigration affect the labour market of natives?” began Joan Monràs from Columbia University at the seminar. “You will be surprised that despite vast studies on wage benefits of migration, there is no consensus amongst researchers!”

He made use of the Mexican Peso Crisis of the mid-1990s that raised net Mexican migration to the US to identify the causal effect of immigration on local labor markets across time, space, skill and age. Time, because more people are expected to settle in a given year; space, since most Mexicans settle in particular areas...

19 de Diciembre, 2013
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El Navarra Center for International Development ha abierto el plazo para el envío de comunicación para la tercera edición del Congreso Development Week. Como cada año el evento tendrá lugar la primera semana de junio 2-6, 2014. El NCID abre esta convocatoria para aquellos investigadores con artículos en Economía, Ciencias Políticas y/o Sociología en tanto que tengan relación con tema central en la tercera edición de este evento: Africa, un futuro prometedor. Estos trabajos pueden incluir, pero no tienen que estar li...

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