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Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-07)This paper presents field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers’ skills distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers’ skills, giving workseekers their assessment results, and ... -
Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in China
(SpringerOpen, 2013)Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so ... -
Johannesburg and Beyond
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Jordan: The Elements of a Growth Strategy
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-04)In the decade 1999-2009, Jordan experienced an impressive growth acceleration, tripling its exports and increasing income per capita by 38%. Since then, a number of external shocks that include the Global Financial Crisis ... -
Journalism and Economics: The Tangled Webs of Profession, Narrative, and Responsibility in a Modern Democracy
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1997)What can be done to improve this situation? The answer is clearly important if economics is to contribute to better public policy. It is surely a necessary condition for effective reporting that journalists become more ... -
Journalism and Global Health
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2008)Looking to see how much coverage global health issues have received across American newspapers, we carried out a survey of news coverage in eight newspapers published over the past several decades. We also conducted two ... -
Journalism without Journalists: Vision or Caricature?
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2007)A paper by Michael Maier, spring 2007 fellow, examines various forms of citizen journalism taking place at traditional media outlets. The paper includes projects by The Los Angeles Times in 2005; a model developed by Bill ... -
Journalism, Value Creation and the Future of News Organizations
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2006)News organizations in the United States are struggling to respond to technical and social changes that are disrupting the business models that proved successful in the twentieth century. The primary driver of change is ... -
Junk News: Can Public Broadcasters Buck the Tabloid Tendencies of Market-Driven Journalism? A Canadian Experience
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1997)In public policy terms, Canadian political elites have long considered constitutional reform a pre-condition for the continued existence of the Canadian federation. Yet for political journalists, the clause-by-clause ... -
Kachin State Development Prospects and Priorities
(Harvard University, 2016-05)Kachin has just over 3% of Myanmar’s population but a much larger share of its natural resource wealth, notably in the form of large jade deposits and significant hydropower potential. Research findings indicate that ... -
Keeping One's Eye on the Ball: Exploring the Intensity of Sports Activities across Europe
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-07)As described in Russell, Barrios & Andrews (2016), past attempts to understand the sports economy have been constrained by a number of data limitations. For instance, many of these accounts use revenues when value added ... -
Key Steps for Continuing Nuclear Security Progress
The work of improving nuclear security is not done, though leaders are no longer meeting at the summit level. The threats of nuclear theft and terrorism remain very real. States, nuclear operating organizations, and ... -
Knowledge Diffusion in the Network of International Business Travel
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-08-10)We use aggregated and anonymized information based on international expenditures through corporate payment cards to map the network of global business travel. We combine this network with information on the industrial ... -
Knowledge systems for sustainable development
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003)The challenge of meeting human development needs while protecting the earth's life support systems confronts scientists, technologists, policy makers, and communities from local to global levels. Many believe that science ... -
La Complejidad Economica de Chiapas: Analisis de Capacidades y Posibilidades de Diversificacion Productiva
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-09)Chiapas es el estado más pobre de México, y también el menos diversificado en su estructura productiva. Según los hallazgos de este reporte, esa dualidad no es una coincidencia casual. La escasa complejidad económica de ... -
La Riqueza Escondida de Loreto: Análisis de Complejidad Económica y Oportunidades de Diversificación Productiva
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-10)El Laboratorio de Crecimiento de la Universidad de Harvard, bajo el auspicio de la Fundación Gordon and Betty Moore, ha desarrollado esta investigación para identificar las capacidades productivas existentes en Loreto y ... -
The Labor Market Impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium.
(2014)In 2010, the Gulf Coast experienced the largest oil spill, the greatest mobilization of spill response resources, and the first Gulf-wide deepwater drilling moratorium in U.S. history. Taking advantage of the unexpected ... -
Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-07)Saudi Arabia is home to the world’s third largest migrant population. Under mounting pressure to increase the private sector employment of Saudis during the last decade, a series of nationalization policies on the labor ... -
The labor of division: returns to compulsory high school math coursework.
(2017)Despite great focus on and public investment in STEM education, little causal evidence connects quantitative coursework to students’ economic outcomes. I show that state changes in minimum high school math requirements ...