The economics of health and safety at work: an interdiciplinary review of the theory and policy

K Pouliakas, I Theodossiou - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper engages in an interdisciplinary survey of the current state of knowledge related to
the theory, determinants and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). It first …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding period poverty: socio-economic inequalities in menstrual hygiene management in eight low-and middle-income countries

L Rossouw, H Ross - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Menstrual hygiene management and health is increasingly gaining policy importance in a
bid to promote dignity, gender equality and reproductive health. Effective and adequate …

Gender and the labor market: What have we learned from field and lab experiments?

G Azmat, B Petrongolo - Labour economics, 2014 - Elsevier
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both
traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their …

New perspectives on gender

B Marianne - Handbook of labor economics, 2011 - Elsevier
Psychological and socio-psychological factors are now more commonly discussed as
possible explanations for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We first describe the …

Learning about an infrequent event: Evidence from flood insurance take-up in the United States

J Gallagher - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014 - JSTOR
I examine the learning process that economic agents use to update their expectation of an
uncertain and infrequently observed event. I use a new nation-wide panel dataset of large …

Sanitation and education

A Adukia - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017 - aeaweb.org
I explore whether the absence of school sanitation infrastructure impedes educational
attainment, particularly among pubescent-age girls, using a national Indian school latrine …

Reprint of: The pros and cons of sick pay schemes: Testing for contagious presenteeism and noncontagious absenteeism behavior

S Pichler, NR Ziebarth - Journal of Public Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper provides an analytical framework and uses data from the US and Germany to test
for the existence of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sick leave …

Gender gaps in performance: Evidence from young lawyers

G Azmat, R Ferrer - Journal of Political Economy, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper documents the gender gap in performance among high-skilled professionals in
the United States. On the basis of widely used performance measures in law firms, we find …

Determinants of technology adoption: Peer effects in menstrual cup take-up

E Oster, R Thornton - Journal of the European Economic …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We estimate the role of peer effects in technology adoption using data from a randomized
distribution of menstrual cups in Nepal. Using individual randomization, we estimate causal …

Do teacher absences impact student achievement? Longitudinal evidence from one urban school district

RT Miller, RJ Murnane… - … Evaluation and Policy …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
This article exploits highly detailed data on teacher absences from a large urban school
district in the northern United States to shed light on the determinants and effects of teacher …