by S. Chowdhury, A. Krause & K. Zimmermann       . This paper investigates the effect of drinking arsenic contaminated water on mental health. Drinking water with an unsafe arsenic level for a prolonged period can lead to arsenicosis and associated illness. Based on rich and newly collected hous

by Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao                       . We present the first systematic study on child labour in China. Child labour is not a negligible social phenomenon in China; about 7.74% of children aged from 10 to 15 were working in 2010, and they worked for 6.75 hours per day on average,

by E. Meschi, E. Taymaz & M. Vivarelli                           This paper studies the interlinked relationship between globalisation and technological upgrading in affecting employment and wages of skilled and unskilled workers in a middle income developing country. It exploits a unique longit

On September 18, 2017, GLO Fellow John P. Haisken-DeNew of Melbourne University has visited POP at UNU-MERIT  and presented a paper in the UNU-MERIT/School of Governance Seminar at noon on: Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Pric

The international conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) took place in Brussels on 13-14 July 2017,under the theme ‘Public Policy & Governance Beyond Borders’. The event is co-hosted by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT (Maastricht University, NL) and the Ma

Please join Springer Editorial and the Editor-in-Chief Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT and Princeton University) for a reception at the 2017 ASSA Annual Meeting to celebrate 30 years of JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS and the 2017 KUZNETS PRIZE. –> Friday 6 January, 2017, from

The newest issue of the Journal of Population Economics is now available. Volume 32, issue 1 addresses topics such as whether migration acts as an adjustment mechanism during times of economic crisis, how academic achievement and racial achievement gaps can be explained by childhood l

2019 Kuznets Prize Awarded to Yoo-Mi Chin & Nicholas Wilson             Yoo-Mi Chin (Baylor University) and Nicholas Wilson (Reed College) received the 2019 Kuznets Prize for their article “Disease risk and fertility: evidence from the HIV/AIDS pandem

The latest issue of the Journal of Population Economics is now online here. This issue features the (temporary) free access article “Same-occupation spouses: preferences or search costs?” by Hani Mansour and Terra McKinnish. This issue also features articles on the effects