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Weather Shock, Agricultural Productivity and Infant Health: A Tale of Environmental Injustice

Posted on November 7, 2021 by admin

A new GLO Discussion Paper studies how weather shocks affect income losses and further birth outcomes causing environmental injustice. GLO Discussion Paper No. 965, 2021 Weather Shock, Agricultural Productivity and Infant Health: A Tale of Environmental Injustice – Download PDFby … Continue reading →

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Does Expanding Access to Cannabis Affect Traffic Crashes? County-Level Evidence from Recreational Marijuana Dispensary Sales in Colorado.

Posted on November 6, 2021 by admin

Was it important? A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that while marijuana-related hospital discharge rose, there is lack of evidence that traffic crash incidents were affected. GLO Discussion Paper No. 964, 2021 Does Expanding Access to Cannabis Affect Traffic Crashes? … Continue reading →

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Does the geographic clustering of universities promote their scientific research performance? Evidence from China

Posted on November 5, 2021 by admin

Is critical mass important? A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that it did not work out in China. GLO Discussion Paper No. 963, 2021 Does the geographic clustering of universities promote their scientific research performance? Evidence from China – Download … Continue reading →

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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables

Posted on November 4, 2021 by admin

A new GLO Discussion Paper meets the challenge in making distributional comparisons with ordinal data. GLO Discussion Paper No. 962, 2021 Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables – Download PDFby Silber, Jacques & Yalonetzky, Gaston GLO Fellows Jacques … Continue reading →

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Call for contributions: 38th EBES Conference, Warsaw/Poland, January 12-14, 2022. Submission deadline for abstracts is December 3, 2021!

Posted on November 4, 2021 by admin

Interested researchers are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation consideration. The 38th EBES Conference in Warsaw will take place on January 12-14, 2022 in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person). The event is supported by the Istanbul … Continue reading →

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Understanding inequality within households

Posted on November 3, 2021 by admin

A new GLO Discussion Paper documents that there are substantial inequalities within households in some contexts and that these often, but not always, disfavor women and children. GLO Discussion Paper No. 961, 2021 Understanding inequality within households – Download PDFby … Continue reading →

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Inequality and top incomes

Posted on November 2, 2021 by admin

A new GLO Discussion Paper reviews methodologies and literature to capture and analyze top incomes. GLO Discussion Paper No. 959, 2021 Inequality and top incomes – Download PDFby Bartels, Charlotte & Waldenström, Daniel GLO Fellow Charlotte Bartels Author Abstract: This … Continue reading →

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Mental Health Consequences of Working from Home during the Pandemic

Posted on November 1, 2021 by admin

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds for South Korea that working from home affected females negatively, but not when workers live with children in the household. GLO Discussion Paper No. 960, 2021 Mental Health Consequences of Working from Home during … Continue reading →

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Race against time to save human lives during the COVID-19 with vaccines: Global evidence

Posted on October 31, 2021 by admin

A new GLO Discussion Paper shows that the number of new deaths per million significantly decreases after half of the population is vaccinated, but the number of new cases witnesses an insignificant change. GLO Discussion Paper No. 958, 2021 Race … Continue reading →

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GLO Virtual Seminar with Magnus Lodefalk on “New Work, Exiting Work and Artificial Intelligence”. Report & Video of the Event.

Posted on October 30, 2021 by admin

The GLO Virtual Seminar is a monthly internal GLO research event chaired by GLO Director Matloob Piracha and hosted by the GLO partner institution University of Kent. The results are available on the GLO website and the GLO News section, … Continue reading →

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