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- Publications
- Influence
Information and discrimination in the rental housing market: Evidence from a field experiment
- M. Bosch, M. Carnero, L. Farré
- Economics
- 2010
This paper investigates the effect of disclosing information on the discriminatory behavior against immigrants in the Spanish rental market. We conduct a field experiment where emails are sent… Expand
The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes and its Implications for Female Labour Force Participation
Using a sample of mother-child pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the Young Adults of the NLSY79 we explore the relationship between a woman’s attitudes towards… Expand
Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women
- L. Farré, L. González, F. Ortega
- Economics
- 14 June 2011
Abstract We investigate the effect of immigration on the labor supply of skilled women, using data on Spain’s large recent immigration wave. We adopt a spatial correlations approach and instrument… Expand
Does Increasing Parents’ Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence Based on Conditional Second Moments
This paper investigates the degree of intergenerational transmission of education for individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Rather than identifying the causal effect of… Expand
A parametric control function approach to estimating the returns to schooling in the absence of exclusion restrictions: an application to the NLSY
An innovation which bypasses the need for instruments when estimating endogenous treatment effects is identification via conditional second moments. The most general of these approaches is Klein and… Expand
How the covid-19 lockdown affected gender Inequality in paid and unpaid work in Spain
- L. Farré, Y. Fawaz, Libertad González, J. Graves
- Political Science
- 7 July 2020
The covid-19 pandemic led many countries to close schools and declare lockdowns during the Spring of 2020, with important impacts on the labor market. We document the effects of the covid-19 lockdown… Expand
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Feeling useless: the effect of unemployment on mental health in the Great Recession
- L. Farré, F. Fasani, H. Mueller
- Economics
- 1 August 2018
This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental distress using data from the Spanish National Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify… Expand
Media Exposure and Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia
This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal… Expand
Does Paternity Leave Reduce Fertility?
- L. Farré, L. González
- Economics
- 1 April 2019
We find that the introduction of two weeks of paid paternity leave in Spain in 2007 led to delays in subsequent fertility. Following a regression discontinuity design and using rich administrative… Expand
The Role Of Men for Gender Equality
- L. Farré
- Political Science
- 2012
For a long time, a commitment to promoting gender equality in economic outcomes, as in other areas of social development and human rights, has emphasized women’s empowerment. There is evidence that… Expand
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