Browsing by Author "Mitrut, Andreea"
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Austerity Measures and Infant Health. Lessons from an Unexpected Wage Cut Policy
Bejenariu, Simona; Mitrut, Andreea (2013-10)We investigate the effects on health at birth of a shock generated by a major (25%) and unexpected wage cut austerity measure that affected all public sector employees in Romania in 2010. Our findings suggest an overall ... -
Bridging the Gap for Roma Women: The Effects of a Health Mediation Program on Roma Prenatal Care and Child Health
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Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; Mitrut, Andreea (2021-12): Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ages: about 13% for both ... -
Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?
Borcan, Oana; Lindahl, Mikael; Mitrut, Andreea (2015-02)We investigate the efficiency and distributional consequences of a corruptionfighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam ... -
Four Essays on Interhousehold Transfers and Institutions in Post-Communist Romania
Mitrut, Andreea (2008)Four Essays on Interhousehold Transfers and Institutionsin Post-Communist RomaniaavAndreea MitrutAKADEMISK AVHANDLINGsom med vederbörligt tillstånd för vinnande avfilosofie doktorsexamen vidHandelshögskolans fakultet, ... -
Four Essays on Interhousehold Transfers and Institutions in Post-Communist Romania
Mitrut, Andreea (2008-05-27)This thesis consists of four essays related to different social and economic aspects in post-communist Romania: Paper 1: Motives for Private Gift Transfers: Theory and Evidence from Romania In many developing and ... -
Investing in children's education: Are Muslim immigrants different?
Mitrut, Andreea; Wolff, Francois-Charles (2013-10)Using a unique data set on immigrants living in France in 2003, we investigate whether Muslims invest differently in their children’s education compared to non-Muslims. In particular, we want to assess whether educational ... -
Motives for Private Gift Transfers: Theory and Evidence from Romania
Mitrut, Andreea; Nordblom, Katarina (2007-09-04)In many developing and transitional countries with limited public income redistribution, inter-household transfers in general, and gifts in particular, are sizable and very important. We use unique Romanian survey data ... -
Remittances after natural disasters: Evidence from the 2004 Indian tsunami
Mitrut, Andreea (2014-08)We examine the impact of the 2004 Indian tsunami on international remittance transfers using aggregate country data and synthetic control methodology. This procedure implies identifying the causal impact of the disaster ... -
The Impact of Abortion on Crime and Crime-Related Behavior
Hjalmarsson, Randi; Mitrut, Andreea; Pop-Eleches, Cristian (2019-06)The 1966 abolition and 1989 legalization of abortion in Romania immediately doubled and decreased by about a third the number of births per month, respectively. To isolate the link between abortion access and crime while ... -
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Child Health Outcomes and Abandonment. Evidence from Romania
Mitrut, Andreea; Wolff, Francois-Charles (2011-08)We use household survey data and a unique census of institutionalized children to analyze the impact of abortion legalization in Romania. We exploit the lift of the abortion ban in December 1989, when communist dictator ... -
The income of the Swedish baby boomers
Mitrut, Andreea; Klevmarken, Anders; Flood, Lennart (2006)This paper study the income of Swedish households belonging to the baby boom generation, i.e those born in the 1940-50. An international comparison as well as an historical presentation of income patterns is given. However, ...