This paper examines the Pakistan Administrative Services (PAS), a bureaucracy in a high-
corruption, low-transparency environment, to assess whether discretion in promotion …

Most research questions in agricultural and applied economics are of a causal nature, ie,
how one or more variables (eg, policies, prices, the weather) affect one or more other …

This paper aims to explore the impact of China's value-added tax (VAT) credit refunds policy
on the enterprises' labor demand through a paradigm combining ex-ante analysis and ex …

Conventional economic theories cannot fully explain the timing, duration, and size of the
American Baby Boom. I propose a new explanation: the rise of the labor movement. Union …

Using data from 18 countries, we investigate the effects of child marriage bans on infant and
under-5 mortality. We use variation in mothers' exposure to the ban across cohorts within …

A large body of research has highlighted the substantial and persistent earnings losses
suffered by displaced workers, referred to as the “scarring effect.” However, policy …

This paper examines the impact of socio-political uncertainty on marriage markets, focusing
on two underexplored Muslim marital payments, prompt dower—payable by husbands at …

We study the implications of agricultural price support programs, which offer a minimum
price predominantly to farmers of staple crops, and farm input price subsidies for consumer …

We examine how Medicaid reimbursement rates affect mental health access and use.
Allegheny County delivers behavioral health services to Medicaid recipients through a …

Most research questions in agricultural and applied economics are of a causal nature, ie,
how one or more variables (eg, policies, prices, the weather) affect one or more other …