Sandra Sequeira
Biographic Data
| ID | 5166243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Sequeira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Sequeira |
| SIGNATURE | SEQUEIRA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8831-6736 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learning by searching: Spatial mismatches and imperfect information in Southern labor markets
Youth unemployment remains extremely high throughout the developing world, at times coexisting with unmet demand for labor and high job turnover. We examine one possible explanation for this: spatial mismatches between jobs and job-seekers combined with high search costs can lead young job-seekers to have overly optimistic beliefs about their employment prospects. As a result, job-seekers under-search but also hold out for better jobs. Through a …
Immigrants and the Making of America
We study the effects of European immigration to the U.S. during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1920) on economic prosperity. Exploiting cross-county variation in immigration that arises from the interaction of fluctuations in aggregate immigrant flows and of the gradual expansion of the railway network, we find that counties with more historical immigration have higher income, less poverty, less unemployment, higher rates of urbanization, and gr…
RCTs as an opportunity to promote interdisciplinary, inclusive, and diverse quantitative development research
Consumer Demand for Fair Trade: Evidence from a Multistore Field Experiment
We provide new evidence on consumer demand for ethical products from experiments conducted in a U.S. grocery store chain. We find that sales of the two most popular coffees rose by almost 10% when they carried a Fair Trade label as compared to a generic placebo label. Demand for the higher-priced coffee remained steady when its price was raised by 8%, but demand for the lower-priced coffee was elastic: a 9% price increase led to a 30% decline in …
L'infrastructure de transport « immatérielle » des ports de Maputo et Durban
Dans cet article, les auteurs avancent l’argument selon lequel une infrastructure de transport soft peut contribuer à la hausse du coût des échanges commerciaux, en s’appuyant sur l’exemple des administrations portuaires du sud de l’Afrique. Dans la mesure où ces administrations détiennent un monopole discrétionnaire sur la prestation d’un service public essentiel non substituable, elles sont exposées à la corruption. Les auteurs constatent que l…
Learning by searching: Spatial mismatches and imperfect information in Southern labor markets
Youth unemployment remains extremely high throughout the developing world, at times coexisting with unmet demand for labor and high job turnover. We examine one possible explanation for this: spatial mismatches between jobs and job-seekers combined with high search costs can lead young job-seekers to have overly optimistic beliefs about their employment prospects. As a result, job-seekers under-search but also hold out for better jobs. Through a …
RCTs as an opportunity to promote interdisciplinary, inclusive, and diverse quantitative development research
L'infrastructure de transport « immatérielle » des ports de Maputo et Durban
Dans cet article, les auteurs avancent l’argument selon lequel une infrastructure de transport soft peut contribuer à la hausse du coût des échanges commerciaux, en s’appuyant sur l’exemple des administrations portuaires du sud de l’Afrique. Dans la mesure où ces administrations détiennent un monopole discrétionnaire sur la prestation d’un service public essentiel non substituable, elles sont exposées à la corruption. Les auteurs constatent que l…
Consumer Demand for Fair Trade: Evidence from a Multistore Field Experiment
We provide new evidence on consumer demand for ethical products from experiments conducted in a U.S. grocery store chain. We find that sales of the two most popular coffees rose by almost 10% when they carried a Fair Trade label as compared to a generic placebo label. Demand for the higher-priced coffee remained steady when its price was raised by 8%, but demand for the lower-priced coffee was elastic: a 9% price increase led to a 30% decline in …
RCTs as an opportunity to promote interdisciplinary, inclusive, and diverse quantitative development research
Immigrants and the Making of America
We study the effects of European immigration to the U.S. during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1920) on economic prosperity. Exploiting cross-county variation in immigration that arises from the interaction of fluctuations in aggregate immigrant flows and of the gradual expansion of the railway network, we find that counties with more historical immigration have higher income, less poverty, less unemployment, higher rates of urbanization, and gr…
Learning by searching: Spatial mismatches and imperfect information in Southern labor markets
Youth unemployment remains extremely high throughout the developing world, at times coexisting with unmet demand for labor and high job turnover. We examine one possible explanation for this: spatial mismatches between jobs and job-seekers combined with high search costs can lead young job-seekers to have overly optimistic beliefs about their employment prospects. As a result, job-seekers under-search but also hold out for better jobs. Through a …
Economics (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works) · Microeconomics (2 works) · Unemployment (2 works) · Advertising (1 works) · Agricultural economics (1 works)