
Working Papers
Read from a series of more than 400 working papers
The COVID-19 pandemic and intra-household tensions in Africa
Wolfgang Stojetz, Tilman Brück, Mekdim D. Regassa, Anke Hoeffler
This study examines the impact of countermeasures, such as stay-at-home orders and school closures, on stress within households during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a phone […]
Francisca Castro, Tilman Brück, Wolfgang Stojetz, Hadi Jaafar
When refugees flee abroad, they carry the legacy of their traumatic experiences across borders. While there are over 43 million refugees worldwide, the long-term effects […]
Wolfgang Stojetz, Tilman Brück, Carlo Azzarri, Erdgin Mane
This paper provides evidence on the impacts of armed conflict and climate change on individual labor intensity. Based on pooled labor force survey, climate, and […]
The Scar of Civil War: Exposure in (Early) Childhood and School Test Scores as a Teenager
This paper investigates the effect of civil war exposure in (early) childhood on school test scores as a teenager. It uses test scores from the […]
High-Skilled Migration from Myanmar: Responses to Signals of Political and Economic Stabilization
Yashodhan Ghorpade, Muhammad Saad Imtiaz and Theingie Han
In recent years Myanmar has witnessed considerable economic and political instability, leading many young people, particularly the higher-skilled, to consider migrating abroad for improved prospects. […]
Yashodhan Ghorpade, Muhammad Saad Imtiaz
We examine the relationship between violent conflict and the willingness of potential migrants to accept lower skilled work (occupational downgrading). We develop a theoretical model […]