Although the United States has one of the highest standards of living in the world, nearly 15 percent of all households and 39 percent of near-poor households were food insecure in 2008. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called the Food Stamp Program) is the cornerstone of federal food assistance programs and serves as the first line of defense against food-related h...

Recent policy reforms in a number of countries are extending working lives and deferring the statutory retirement age. Yet such changes may have profound implications for the well-being of older workers if such individuals are more likely to suffer work-related health problems. Using international data from the European Working Conditions Survey for 2005, we test whether older workers (aged 55-...

Using a rich longitudinal data set from birth, we explore three estimation issues related to academic performance analysis. Our paper primarily examines the effect of omitting childhood and teenage characteristics (childhood ability, parental resources at different times and peer effects), which are traditionally unavailable in data sets. Additionally, we explore the potential endogeneity of pr...

Given the crucial role that environmental accounting plays in sustainable development, this study investigates relationship between climate change disclosure performance (CCDP) and financial distress as well moderating impact of litigation, existence a risk committee, employment Big4 auditing firms level audit fees. Utilising sample top 300 Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed non-financ...

Self-dealing in securities issuance can be characterized by an issuing manager who gains at the expense of the other existing stakeholders in the issue. The current system of public securities issuance for U.S. states potentially allows for conflict of interest through campaign contributions that benefit issuing officials. This paper shows that selecting a contributing underwriter through negot...

This paper provides new evidence on the impact of migration male household heads autonomy their spouses. Using panel survey data from Ethiopia, methodology mainly relies an instrumental variables approach that addresses endogeneity inherent in relationship and carefully pays attention to role remittances. After correcting for endogeneity, we find consistent increases female self-determination d...

We study the effect of living in an internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp on economic activity choices in post war northern Uganda. As the decision to relocate from a camp is voluntary, camp residents may be different from returnees. We merge household data with micro-level conflict data to control for endogeneity (selection of households out from camps). We find a strong effect of camp resi...