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Financialization and Income Inequality

We study the impact of a nation-wide unconditional cash transfer program on labor... Read More

Date

December, 2025

No.

1821

Topic

F6. Economic Impacts of Globalization

F4. Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance

I3. Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

O1. Economic Development

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Informality and Heterogeneity: Assessing Monetary Policy Transmission in...

We study the impact of a nation-wide unconditional cash transfer program on labor... Read More

Date

December, 2025

No.

1820

Topic

E1. General Aggregative Models

E3. Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles

E5. Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

E2. Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy

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Innovation Activities and Sustainable Firm Growth in Arab...

We study the impact of a nation-wide unconditional cash transfer program on labor... Read More

Date

December, 2025

No.

1819

Topic

L1. Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance

O3. Technological Change, Research and Development, Intellectual Property Rights

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Stuck in War: The PKK Conflict and Intergenerational...

We study the impact of a nation-wide unconditional cash transfer program on labor... Read More

Date

December, 2025

No.

1818

Topic

N3. Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy

I1. Health

I2. Education and Research Institutions

J2. Demand and Supply of Labor

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Investor Herding and Islamic Moral Economy and Finance:...

We study the impact of a nation-wide unconditional cash transfer program on labor... Read More

Date

December, 2025

No.

1817

Topic

G1. General Financial Markets

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Cash Transfers and Labor Supply: Evidence from A Large-Scale Program in Iran

We study the impact of a nation-wide unconditional cash transfer program on labor supply in... Read More

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Did the Cost of Living Rise Faster for the Rural Poor?

Inflation has been rising in Egypt over the last decade reaching double digit levels. It... Read More

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Access to Healthcare, Utilization and Health Outcomes in Turkey

This paper examines the link between healthcare access/utilization and health outcomes in Turkey within a... Read More

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Reforms and Physicians’ Status in Turkey: Distribution of OOP Health Expenditures for Physicians and Hospitals

Turkish health care reforms brought about significant changes regarding the way physicians practice. Dual-time practice,... Read More

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The Impact of Early Marriage on Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa

Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and... Read More

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Long-Range Dependence in Daily Volatility on Tunisian Stock Market

The aim of this paper is to enfold the volatility dynamics on the Tunisian stock... Read More

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Designing Institutions and Incentives in Hospitals: An Organization Economics Methodology

Recent seminal developments in organization economics, namely the decision rights approach, offer an opportunity to... Read More

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Understanding and Combating Poverty: A Quest for Conceptualization, Measurment Indicators, Causes, and Empirical Methodologies

This paper reviews some selected conceptual literature on poverty issues and the various approaches to... Read More

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