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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12488 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Sarah C. Dahmann
Daniel A. Kamhöfer
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Self-Control: Determinants, Life Outcomes and Intergenerational Implications
This paper studies self-control in a nationally representative sample. Using the well-established Tangney scale to measure trait self-control, we find that people's age as well as the political and ...
(updated version published as 'The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744)
D91, J24
12487 Jonas Jessen
Jochen Kluve
The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Informality in Low- and Middle Income Countries
Labor markets in low- and middle income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of interventions have therefore been implemented in many countries with the objective to ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105256 )
C40, J08, J46, J48
12486 Xavier D'Haultfoeuille
Arnaud Maurel
Xiaoyun Qiu
Yichong Zhang
Estimating Selection Models without Instrument with Stata
This article presents the eqregsel command for implementing the estimation and bootstrap inference of sample selection models via extremal quantile regression. The command estimates a semiparametric ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2020, 20(2), 297-308)
C21, C24, C87, J31
12484 Daniela Del Boca
Enrica Maria Martino
Elena Claudia Meroni
Daniela Piazzalunga
Early Education and Gender Differences
A rich strand of the economic literature has been studying the impact of different forms of early childcare on children cognitive and non-cognitive development in the short and medium run, and on a ...
(published in: Economica Italiana, 2019, 3, 11-36 )
J13, J16
12483 Agnitra Roy Choudhury
Solomon Polachek
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on the Timing of Infant Vaccinations
Raising a new-born child involves not only financial resources, but also time investment from the parents. A time constraint can affect important decisions made by parents at the early stages of an ...
(published in: Vaccine, 2021, 39 (21), 2886-2893)
D04, I12, I18, J18
12481 Steven W. Hemelt
Nathaniel L. Schwartz
Susan Dynarski
Dual-Credit Courses and the Road to College: Experimental Evidence from Tennessee
Dual-credit courses expose high school students to college-level content and provide the opportunity to earn college credits, in part to smooth the transition to college. With the Tennessee ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020, 39 (3), 686-719)
I21, I23, I24, I28
12480 Nicole B. Simpson
Chad Sparber
Estimating the Determinants of Remittances Originating from U.S. Households using CPS Data
The U.S. is the largest source country of remittances with an outflow of more than $70 billion estimated for 2016 (according to data from the World Bank). This paper is the first to use Current ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2020, 46 (1), 161-189)
F24, J61
12479 Manuel Aepli
Andreas Kuhn
Open Labor Markets and Firms’ Substitution between Training Apprentices and Hiring Workers
In this paper, we study whether Swiss employers substitute between training apprentices and hiring cross-border workers. Because both training apprentices and hiring skilled workers are costly for ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101979)
D22, J23, J61, M53
12478 Shushanik Margaryan
Nils Saniter
Mathias Schumann
Thomas Siedler
Do Internships Pay Off? The Effects of Student Internships on Earnings
This paper studies the causal effect of student internship experience in firms on earnings later in life. We use mandatory firm internships at German universities as an instrument for doing a firm ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57(4), 1242-1275)
I23, J01, J31
12477 Sebastian Fehrler
Maik T. Schneider
Buying Supermajorities in the Lab
Many decisions taken in legislatures or committees are subject to lobbying efforts. A seminal contribution to the literature on vote-buying is the legislative lobbying model pioneered by Groseclose ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 127, 113-154)
C92, D72
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