SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF ECONOMIC DOWNTURN (2008) IN LITHUANIA

1 Employment Inequalities in an Economic Downturn

Unreported Victims of an Economic Downturn∗

I document that the recent Great Recession caused large decreases in referral rates for child maltreatment: areas most affected by the recession saw the largest decreases. This fits with some previous work that finds that poor economic conditions are associated with lower reported child maltreatment rates. I argue that this was due not to decreases in actual maltreatment rates, but rather large...

Child Support in an Economic Downturn:

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The social and economic consequences of malnutrition

Adequate nutrition is a key factor to live an active and healthy life. In spite of its importance as a determinant of health and development, malnutrition is still a neglected area and too little has been done to address its causes and serious social and economic implications. However, recently there has been growing interest in nutrition with stronger political involvement at national and inte...

The Economic Consequences of Social Network Structure

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of ‘macro’ and ‘micro’ characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in determining learning, diffusion, decisions, and resulting behaviors. We also discuss the challenges of account...