Abstract Introduction Paraplegia post-thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) repair remains both a devastating and poorly understood complication. We related temporal changes in cellular protein composition of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to neurological outcomes after TAAA gain mechanistic insights driving paraplegia. Method Patients undergoing (open or endovascular) with CSF drain were prospect...

I study how the relative efficiency of high- and low-skill labor varies across countries. Using microdata for countries at different stages development, document that differences in quantities wages are consistent with high-skill workers being relatively more productive rich exploit variation skill premia foreign-educated migrants to discriminate between two possible drivers this pattern: cross...

The old-age security motive for fertility postulates that people’s needs support raise the demand children. We exploit extension of social pensions in Namibia during 1990s to provide a quasi-experimental quantification this widespread idea. reform eliminated inequalities pension coverage and benefits across regions ethnic groups. Combining differences pre-reform exposure cohorts, we show substa...

Online professional networking platforms are widely used and may help workers to search for obtain jobs. We run the first randomized evaluation of training work seekers join use one largest platforms, LinkedIn. Training increases end-of-program employment rate by 10 percent (7 percentage points), this effect persists at least 12 months. The available employment, platform use, job data suggest t...

Employment may be important to well-being for reasons beyond its role as an income source. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value employment in refugee camps Bangladesh. We involve 745 individuals field experiment with three arms: control arm, weekly cash and arm equal value. raises substantially more than alone, 66 percent employed are willing forgo payments continue w...

this paper aims to analyze the relationship among the employee, the employer, and the government with the help of game theory. the game among these three players is of the sort of static games with complete information and the strategies used by each player have been determined in the figure of tending to change the current situation and tending to keep it. the equilibrium among this three play...