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Impacts of COVID-19 on Food Security: Panel Data Evidence from Nigeria

A new GLO Discussion Paper quantifies the overall and differential impacts of COVID-19 on household food security, labor market participation and local food prices in Nigeria. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions … Continue reading

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Second Webinar in the GLO Virtual Young Scholar (GLO-VirtYS) Program, Cohort 2019-20. First announcement for September 17, 2020.

Second webinar in the GLO Virtual Young Scholar (GLO-VirtYS) Program, Cohort 2019-20 All the presentation in this series are based on the projects that GLO-VirtYS program scholars completed as part of their program participation. This seminar is GLO internal, special … Continue reading

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First Webinar in the GLO Virtual Young Scholar (GLO-VirtYS) Program, Cohort 2019-20: Report and Video.

First webinar in the GLO Virtual Young Scholar (GLO-VirtYS) Program, Cohort 2019-20 All the presentation in this series are based on the projects that GLO-VirtYS program scholars completed as part of their program participation. September 10th Program Sydney (10pm), Beijing … Continue reading

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#VeniceFilmFestival: Mexican Filmmaker Michel Franco received the Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival 2020 for “NEW ORDER”, a “harrowing, ultra-violent coup d’etat thriller” considered to be his “most ambitious & darkest film”.

Announced yesterday night: My Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio 2017 colleague Michel Franco won the Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival 2020 with his new coup d’etat thriller “New Order” about a distressing drama …. set in a dystopian Mexican … Continue reading

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Education and gender role attitudes in China

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics finds that the extra schooling induced by the compulsory schooling reform from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law in China leads to more egalitarian gender role attitudes. Read more … Continue reading

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Excess churn in integrated labor markets.

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics finds for Norway evidence of high excess churn rates in firms with many workers from the new EU member states. This leads to a reallocation of labor within … Continue reading

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Intra-household bargaining power, surname inheritance, and human capital accumulation.

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics finds for China that children whose mothers are younger, more educated, and from regions with a lower sex ratio are more likely to be named after their mother. … Continue reading

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Cohort at risk: long-term consequences of conflict for child school achievement

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS in the Journal of Population Economics using data from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank during the Second Intifada shows that an increase in family experience of conflict has large … Continue reading

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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics examines whether female breadwinning makes partnerships less healthy or less stable using more recent US and Australian data. The study finds a much more modest association in both … Continue reading

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The role of innovation in industrial dynamics and productivity growth: a survey of the literature

A new GLO Discussion Paper reviews the literature that investigates the effects of innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, the two main channels through which innovation drives growth. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental … Continue reading

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