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

The past year has been a busy one for the Journal of Population Economics. With well over 500 submissions received in 2017, the Journal has continued to attract many high-quality, innovative articles from researchers all over the world. The newly-released Journal Citation Report indic

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

The final issue of the Journal of Population Economics for 2019 has been published! Issue 32(4) contains ten exceptional articles that address themes such as migration and social remittances, demography and population policy, and development in family contexts. The lead article, by Ga

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