Understanding the role of foreign aid in poverty alleviation is one of the central inquiries for development economics. To augment past crosscountry studies and randomized evaluations, this project estimates the first sub-national model of foreign aid allocation and impact. Newly geocoded aid project data from Malawi is used in combination with multiple rounds of living standards data to predic...

This work studies the impact that the Great Recession has had on the migration of graduates in Spain, a country with low international mobility for graduates but where push factors associated to the crisis have probably changed their mobility patterns. Our empirical analysis first adopts a macro approach by estimating a gravity model taking advantage of the recent publication of the IAB brain-d...

Persistent Impact of Natural Disasters on Child Nutrition and Schooling: Evidence from the 1999 Colombian Earthquake This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification strategy combines household survey data with event data on the timing and location of the earthquake, exploiting the exogenous exposure of children to the shock. Th...

Using data from South Asia, this article examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to allow sufficient time to marry off her younger sisters. Relative to younger brothers, younger sisters increase a girl's marriage risk; relative to yo...

Empowering Women: The Effect of Schooling on Young Women’s Knowledge and Use of Contraception Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order to identify the causal effect of schooling, we exploit tempo...

Background/Aim. The growing number of older adults means higher medicine utilization. aim the study was to determine frequency and identify risk factors potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) in elderly population with cardiovascular diseases. Methods. retrospective, cross-sectional performed 2018, relevant data were collected during period from January 2016 December 2017. sample included 1...

Abstract Background Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of global mortality and a major contributor to disability. According European Disease Statistics, in 2017 there were 108.7 million people living with CVDs Europe resulting about 4,681 disability-adjusted life years per 100,000 inhabitants. Among these, ischaemic heart cerebrovascular (IH&CBD) represent highest burden t...