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On 22 April, 2014, ISET hosted Dr. Maryam Naghsh Nejad, from the Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, who presented her paper “Does Suburbanization cause obesity?”.
In recent years the population in metropolitan areas of the United States has increased. At the same time, the population living in the central areas of cities declined, implying that those people moving to metropolitan areas prefer to live in suburban areas. Dr. Nejad explored whether this choice to live in suburban areas has caused the recent increase of the obesity rate.
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On April 7, 2014, ISET hosted Dr. Aleksandr Grigoryan from the American University of Armenia, who presented his paper “Who else emigrates from Armenia? Evidence from intentions”. The paper addressed two main questions: what influences decision making as to whether to migrate? What was the main trend during recent years?
The literature suggests different explanations for the incentives to migrate, like the wage gap between the home country and country of destination or receiving remittances from abroad. Dr. Grigoryan decided to focus on remittances, exploring the relationship between the later and intensions to migrate in Armenia.
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