As part of recent reforms of the welfare programs in the U.S., many states and localities have refocused their Welfare-to-Work programs from an emphasis on human capital acquisition (i.e., providing basic education and vocational training) to an emphasis on “work-first,” (i.e., moving welfare recipients into unsubsidized employment as quickly as possible. This change in emphasis has been motiva...

Focusing on the global trading relationship aggregated at the level of 15 regions and 10 sectors, we investigate in this paper the welfare effects of preferential trade liberalisation in South Asia from several simulation perspectives. The static version of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model shows that countries that are initially more protected (such as India) are likely to capture...

The objective of this review is to point out that the global dialog on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in animal agriculture has, thus far, not adequately considered animal welfare in proposed climate change mitigation strategies. Many suggested approaches for reducing emissions, most of which could generally be described as calls for the intensification of production, can have substantial ef...

Abstract Solving urbanization problems, especially in developing countries, solely through the adoption of smartness urban areas is insufficient as mostly driven by wide urban-rural economic gap. To narrow this gap, needs to be extended into rural areas. However, studies that direction are still lacking. Therefore, we developed a theoretical model explains determinants and its subsequent conseq...

Workers who experience involuntary job loss suffer from deep and persistent negative consequences. In this paper, we first summarise the evidence on effects of displaced workers’ wellbeing. We conclude that displacement harms mental health economic security in short term negatively affects their earnings mortality risk long term. then extrapolate estimates Hyslop Townsend (2017) to estimate eco...

In an influential article, Bitler, Gelbach and Hoynes (American Economic Review, 2006; 96, 988-1012) illustrate the importance of estimating heterogeneous impacts of welfare reform experiments. They find that the mean treatment effect offers an uninformative summary of opposing effects, while the treatment effects are significantly different across quantiles. We replicate their results and eval...

Technologies, especially the internet, have transformed how consumers search for products and prices. Price search has become cheap and easy and, therefore, ubiquitous, for many products. Just as technologies have made price search easier, however, they have increased incentives that firms have to obfuscate, or make price search harder. In this article, we focus on these actions that firms take...