Direct and Indirect Effects of a Poverty Alleviation Program on Migration: The Case of Progresa

[…] to migrate. This paper analyzes indirect and direct effects of a poverty program on domestic and international migration in rural communities in Mexico. Particularly, we study the impact of Progresa (renamed Oportunidades) on migration. We apply Regression Discontinuity Design techniques to estimate the effects on two non-experimental samples. Additionally, we use simple difference-in-difference techniques […]

Switching costs and occupational transition into self-employment: a duration modelling approach

[…] price volatility to capture uncertainty. Flexible semiparametric baselines are preferred and reveal declining hazard rates (conditional probabilities of transition). Increased local unemployment volatility has a significant negative impact on the conditional probability of transition, and dominates broad regional differences. Increased local house price volatility has a no significant impact. Conditioning the model for background […]

Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement

[…] across jobs and simply accumulated with time spent in the labor market. In this case, labor market shocks like a job loss do not have a major impact on fertility if they are transitory and have small effects on lifetime income. In considering the fertility response to job displacement we depart from this framework […]

Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement

[…] across jobs and simply accumulated with time spent in the labor market. In this case, labor market shocks like a job loss do not have a major impact on fertility if they are transitory and have small effects on lifetime income. In considering the fertility response to job displacement we depart from this framework […]