Esther Gehrke
Biographic Data
| ID | 2566150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Gehrke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Gehrke |
| SIGNATURE | GEHRKE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1432-763X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Career guidance and investments in education
Students in low-income contexts often lack guidance in their career decisions, which can lead to a misallocation of educational investments. We report on a randomized field experiment conducted with 1715 students in rural Cambodia and show that a half-day career guidance workshop designed to support adolescents in developing occupational aspirations on average increased educational investments. We document substantial heterogeneity in treatment e…
Migration opportunities and human capital investments
We examine how shocks to migration opportunities affect schooling outcomes in origin communities. We focus on the migration between Mexico and the United States, and exploit the expansion of the Secure Communities program in the US—a federal data-sharing program that substantially increased the risk of deportation for illegal migrants—as an exogenous shock to the attractiveness of illegal migration. Our results suggest that the Secure Communities…
Confined to stay
How do restrictions to international migration affect communities’ ability to cope with natural disasters? We exploit the implementation of an emigration ban for millions of Indonesians wanting to migrate to Saudi Arabia as a natural experiment. Our identification strategy relies on pre-determined migration networks and on the exogenous timing of the ban and of natural disasters. Using a panel of the universe of Indonesian villages and a triple d…
Regulating manufacturing FDI
We analyze the effect of rising protectionism towards foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic employment, exploiting revisions in Indonesia’s highly granular negative investment list and spatial variation in the initial location of affected firms. The increase in FDI restrictions led to local employment gains, accounting for about one-tenth of the aggregate employment growth observed in Indonesia between 2006 and 2016. These gains were accomp…
Productive effects of public works programs
Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited
This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming through agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle, as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel data set for Andhra Pradesh, India, we explore the average and marginal profitability of holding cattle. We find that cattle farming might well generate positive returns, but most households seem to operate at unprofitable levels. …
Productive effects of public works programs
Confined to stay
How do restrictions to international migration affect communities’ ability to cope with natural disasters? We exploit the implementation of an emigration ban for millions of Indonesians wanting to migrate to Saudi Arabia as a natural experiment. Our identification strategy relies on pre-determined migration networks and on the exogenous timing of the ban and of natural disasters. Using a panel of the universe of Indonesian villages and a triple d…
Regulating manufacturing FDI
We analyze the effect of rising protectionism towards foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic employment, exploiting revisions in Indonesia’s highly granular negative investment list and spatial variation in the initial location of affected firms. The increase in FDI restrictions led to local employment gains, accounting for about one-tenth of the aggregate employment growth observed in Indonesia between 2006 and 2016. These gains were accomp…
Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited
This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming through agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle, as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel data set for Andhra Pradesh, India, we explore the average and marginal profitability of holding cattle. We find that cattle farming might well generate positive returns, but most households seem to operate at unprofitable levels. …
Productive effects of public works programs
Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited
This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming through agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle, as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel data set for Andhra Pradesh, India, we explore the average and marginal profitability of holding cattle. We find that cattle farming might well generate positive returns, but most households seem to operate at unprofitable levels. …
Confined to stay
How do restrictions to international migration affect communities’ ability to cope with natural disasters? We exploit the implementation of an emigration ban for millions of Indonesians wanting to migrate to Saudi Arabia as a natural experiment. Our identification strategy relies on pre-determined migration networks and on the exogenous timing of the ban and of natural disasters. Using a panel of the universe of Indonesian villages and a triple d…
Regulating manufacturing FDI
We analyze the effect of rising protectionism towards foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic employment, exploiting revisions in Indonesia’s highly granular negative investment list and spatial variation in the initial location of affected firms. The increase in FDI restrictions led to local employment gains, accounting for about one-tenth of the aggregate employment growth observed in Indonesia between 2006 and 2016. These gains were accomp…
Career guidance and investments in education
Students in low-income contexts often lack guidance in their career decisions, which can lead to a misallocation of educational investments. We report on a randomized field experiment conducted with 1715 students in rural Cambodia and show that a half-day career guidance workshop designed to support adolescents in developing occupational aspirations on average increased educational investments. We document substantial heterogeneity in treatment e…
Migration opportunities and human capital investments
We examine how shocks to migration opportunities affect schooling outcomes in origin communities. We focus on the migration between Mexico and the United States, and exploit the expansion of the Secure Communities program in the US—a federal data-sharing program that substantially increased the risk of deportation for illegal migrants—as an exogenous shock to the attractiveness of illegal migration. Our results suggest that the Secure Communities…
Economics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Macroeconomics (2 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (2 works) · Poverty (2 works)