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Do Daughters Really Cause Divorce? Stress, Pregnancy, and Family Composition by Hamoudi, Amar, Nobles, Jenna

“…Provocative studies have reported that in the United States, marriages producing firstborn daughters are more likely to divorce than those producing firstborn…”
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The Evolution of the Online Platform Economy: Evidence from Five Years of Banking Data by Farrell, Diana, Greig, Fiona, Hamoudi, Amar

“…Measuring the gig economy has been challenging. Drawing on anonymized administrative banking data, we measure supply-side participation in the online platform…”
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Evaluation of a tablet‐based assessment tool for measuring cognition among children 4–6 years of age in Ghana by Yuan, Haiying, Ocansey, Maku, Adu‐Afarwuah, Seth, Sheridan, Margaret, Hamoudi, Amar, Okronipa, Harriet, Kumordzie, Sika M., Oaks, Brietta M., Prado, Elizabeth

“…Objectives To investigate several basic psychometric properties, including construct, convergent and discriminant validity, of the tablet‐based Rapid…”
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Detecting the Effects of Early-Life Exposures: Why Fecundity Matters by Nobles, Jenna, Hamoudi, Amar

“…Prenatal exposures have meaningful effects on health across the life course. Innovations in causal inference have shed new light on these effects. Here, we…”
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Endogenous coresidence and program incidence: South Africa's Old Age Pension by Hamoudi, Amar, Thomas, Duncan

“…We investigate whether living arrangements respond to an arguably exogenous shift in the distribution of power in family economic decision-making. In the early…”
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Housing Wealth, Psychological Well-being, and Cognitive Functioning of Older Americans by HAMOUDI, Amar, DOWD, Jennifer Beam

“…Economic security around retirement age may be an important determinant of psychological and cognitive well-being of older adults. This study examines the…”
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Brazil’s Missing Infants: Zika Risk Changes Reproductive Behavior by Rangel, Marcos A., Nobles, Jenna, Hamoudi, Amar

“…Zika virus epidemics have potential large-scale population effects. Controlled studies of mice and nonhuman primates indicate that Zika affects fecundity,…”
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Is life expectancy really falling for groups of low socio-economic status? Lagged selection bias and artefactual trends in mortality by Dowd, Jennifer B, Hamoudi, Amar

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Minds Under Siege: Cognitive Signatures of Poverty and Trauma in Refugee and Non‐Refugee Adolescents by Chen, Alexandra, Panter‐Brick, Catherine, Hadfield, Kristin, Dajani, Rana, Hamoudi, Amar, Sheridan, Margaret

“…The impacts of war and displacement on executive function (EF)—what we might call the cognitive signatures of minds under siege—are little known. We surveyed a…”
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Life Expectancy and Education by Dowd, Jennifer Beam, Hamoudi, Amar

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Exploring the Causal Machinery behind Sex Ratios at Birth: Does Hepatitis B Play a Role? by Hamoudi, Amar

“…The causal machinery underlying sex determination is directly relevant to many questions relating gender and family composition to social and economic…”
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Exploring the Casual Machinery Behind Sex Ratios at Birth: Does Hepatitis B Play a Role? by Hamoudi, Amar

“…This note directly addresses the evidence of causality in the HBV/sex-ratio association by reassessing the evidence from this natural experiment. I find that…”
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Seeing, believing, and behaving: Heterogeneous effects of an information intervention on household water treatment by Brown, Joe, Hamoudi, Amar, Jeuland, Marc, Turrini, Gina

“…Providing information about environmental health risks only sometimes induces protective action. This raises questions about whether and how risk information…”
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LIFE EXPECTANCY AND EDUCATION/MONTEZ AND ZAJACOVA RESPOND by Dowd, Jennifer Beam, Hamoudi, Amar, Montez, Jennifer Karas, Zajacova, Anna

“…We commend the call by Montez and Zajacova for a more balanced research approach to trends in mortality-by-education gradients in the United States.1 However,…”
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Physical Health Effects of the Housing Boom: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study by HAMOUDI, Amar, BEAM DOWD, Jennifer

“…We examined the impact of the dramatic increases in housing prices in the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s on physical health outcomes among a…”
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Contracts versus trust for transfers of ecosystem services: Equity and efficiency in resource allocation and environmental provision by Pfaff, Alexander, Velez, Maria Alejandra, Broad, Kenneth, Hamoudi, Amar, Taddei, Renzo

“…Managing natural-resource allocation and environmental externalities is a challenge. Institutional designs are central when improving water quality for…”
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The Effect of Water Quality Testing on Household Behavior: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural India by HAMOUDI, Amar, JEULAND, Marc, LOMBARDO, Sarah, PATIL, Sumeet, PATTANAYAK, Subhrendu K, RAI, Shailesh

“…How does specific information about contamination in a household's drinking water affect water handling behavior? We randomly split a sample of households in…”
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Feasibility of Using Tablet-Based Cognitive Assessments in a Large Randomized Trial in Ghana by Yuan, Haiying, Ocansey, Maku, Oaks, Brietta, Sheridan, Margaret, Okronipa, Harriet, Hamoudi, Amar, Kumordzie, Sika, Adu-Afarwuah, Seth, Prado, Elizabeth

“…We aimed to assess: 1) the feasibility of using three tablet-based tasks to measure the cognitive outcomes of a nutrition trial in Ghana, specifically the…”
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Optimal Zoning in Spatial Differentiation by Hamoudi, Hamid, Rodríguez, Isabel, Martín-Bustamante, Marcos Sanz

“…This study analyzes optimal zoning policy in a duopolistic spatial competition framework for both circular and linear spaces. A regulator is introduced in the…”
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The equivalence of convex and concave transport cost in a circular spatial model with and without zoning by Hamoudi, Hamid, Iglesias, Isabel Ma Rodriguez, Martin-Bustamante, Marcos Sanz

“…This article depicts a location game in a circular market. The equivalence results between a convex and a concave transport cost are reexamined by assuming an…”
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