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Giorgio Chiovelli · Stelios Michalopoulos · Elias Papaioannou · Sandra Sequeira

This paper examines the impact of conflict-driven forced displacement on human capital accumulation using the Mozambican civil war (1977–1992) as the empirical setting. During this war, over four …

Supreet Kaur · Sendhil Mullainathan · Suanna Oh · Frank Schilbach

The paper tests whether financial concerns distract workers sufficiently to meaningfully reduce their productivity, and whether receiving cash — by alleviating those concerns — can raise output even …

Emanuele Colonnelli · Valdemar Pinho Neto · Edoardo Teso

Do individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes in the private sector? Specifically, do business owners sort copartisan workers into their firms, and does employers' …

Eliana Carranza · Aletheia Donald · Florian Grosset-Touba · Supreet Kaur

This paper asks whether informal redistributive pressure — the social obligation to share earned income with kin and social networks — distorts labor supply in low-income communities. The authors …