We examine the average causal impact of catastrophic natural disasters on economic growth
by combining information from comparative case studies. For each country affected by a …

… In 1980, OSN’s jurisdiction was restricted to the federal district and 17 municipalities of the
… the country’s municipalities and covering almost 60 percent of the country’s population were …

… in province p: Δ ( P r e s c h o o l E n r o l l m e n t ) p j = α + β ( N e w P r e s c h o o l P l a c e
… S t o c k c p j = ( 0.5 S t o c k 5 c p j + 0.36 S t o c k 4 c p j + 0.14 S t o c k 3 c p j ) / C o h o r t S …

… After the government made the compensation offers, the owner/s of each tract had to decide
whether to surrender the land (accepting the expropriation compensation) or to start a legal …

… well-known saying of “Seeing is believing” became even more apt in biology when stimulated
emission depletion (STED) nanoscopy was introduced in 1994 by the Nobel laureate S. …

We study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes by
exploiting a unique feature of the Uruguayan household survey (ECH) that collects …

We provide evidence on the impact of a large-scale construction of pre-primary school
facilities in Argentina. We estimate the causal impact of the program on pre-primary school …

We document the rise in unemployment in South Africa since the transition in 1994. We
describe how changes in labour supply interacted with stagnant labour demand to produce …

… Our study complements Miguel and Kremer’s results as we demonstrate that cement floors
can reduce the incidence of those parasites (amoebas) that remain even after deworming. In …

… To study the transmission of schooling from parents to children, we estimate the simple linear
model in equation 1, where S,.,., refers to the educational attainment of the most educated …