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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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9889
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Steven
W.
Hemelt
Rachel
B.
Rosen
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School Entry, Compulsory Schooling, and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Michigan
Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school graduation rate of relatively younger students, but weaken their academic performance ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016, 16(4), 1-29)
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I20, I21, I28
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9888
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Charles
T.
Clotfelter
Steven
W.
Hemelt
Helen
F.
Ladd
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Multifaceted Aid for Low-Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina
We study the evolution of a campus-based aid program for low-income students that began with grant-heavy financial aid and later added a suite of non-financial supports. We find little to no evidence ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 56(1), 278-303.)
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I21, I23, I24, J08
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9887
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Yu-Wei
Luke
Chu
Seth
Gershenson
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High Times: The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Student Time Use
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have passed medical marijuana laws. Previous research shows that these laws increase marijuana use among adults. In this paper, we estimate the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 66, 142-153.)
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I18, K32, K42
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9886
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Katarina
Katz
Torun
Österberg
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Why Do Some Young Adults Not Graduate from Upper Secondary School? On the Importance of Signals of Labour Market Failure
In high-income countries, not completing secondary school often entails a high risk of social exclusion. Using data on young adults born in 1985 that grew up in metropolitan Sweden, we study factors ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017, 61 (6), 701 - 720)
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D64, I24, R23
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9884
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Karen
Clay
Joshua
Lewis
Edson
Severnini
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Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution
Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 698 - 711)
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N32, N52, N72, N92, Q40, Q48, Q53, Q56, I15, J24, J30, R11
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9883
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Anders
Frederiksen
Maja
Due
Kadenic
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Mining in Arctic and Non-Arctic Regions: A Socioeconomic Assessment
In this paper, we study how mines change local societies in the Nordic countries with a particular focus on the Arctic region. Our study is based on register data at the municipality level from ...
(published as: 'Mining the North: Local Impacts' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 101790)
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J2, J15, O12
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9882
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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Individual Well-Being and the Allocation of Time Before and After the Boston Marathon Terrorist Bombing
There is a small literature on the economic costs of terrorism. We consider the effects of the Boston marathon bombing on Americans' well-being and time allocation. We exploit data from the American ...
(heavily revised version, with Orla Doyle, published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (631), 2065–2104)
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I31, J21, J22, F52
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9881
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Tommy
Bengtsson
Anton
Nilsson
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Smoking Behaviour and Early Retirement Due to Chronic Disability
This paper considers the long-term effects of smoking on disability retirement. Exploiting population-wide registry data from Sweden, we contribute to the literature by accounting for a much broader ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 29, 31 - 41)
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I12, J26
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9880
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Sophie
Cetre
Andrew
E.
Clark
Claudia
Senik
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Happy People Have Children: Choice and Self-Selection into Parenthood
There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2016, 32, 445-473)
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D1, J13
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9879
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Melisa
Bubonya
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Mark
Wooden
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Mental Health and Productivity at Work: Does What You Do Matter?
Much of the economic cost of mental illness stems from workers' reduced productivity. We analyze the links between mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures – absenteeism and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 150-165)
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I12, J22, J24
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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