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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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9810
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N. Meltem
Daysal
Mircea
Trandafir
Reyn
van Ewijk
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Heterogeneous Effects of Medical Interventions on the Health of Low-Risk Newborns
We investigate the impact of early-life medical interventions on low-risk newborn health. A policy rule in The Netherlands creates large discontinuities in medical treatments at gestational week 37. ...
(revised version published as 'Low-risk isn't no-risk: Perinatal treatments and the health of low-income newborns' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 64, 55-67. )
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I11, I12, I18, J13
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9809
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Grant
Miller
Christine
Valente
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Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception Are Substitutes
There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of ...
(published in: Demography, 2016, 53(4), 979–1009)
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J13, N35
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9808
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Pushkar
Maitra
Sarmistha
Pal
Anurag
Sharma
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Absence of Altruism? Female Disadvantage in Private School Enrolment in India
Using two nationally representative datasets from household surveys conducted in India in 2005 and 2012, the present paper examines the causal effect of gender in private school choice. We argue that ...
(published in: World Development, 2016, 86, 105–125)
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C21, I25, O10
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9806
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Steffen
Müller
Renate
Neubäumer
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Size of Training Firms: The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (5), 658-673)
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D21, L10, L25, L26, L29, M13
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9805
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Jutta
Viinikainen
Guido
Heineck
Petri
Böckerman
Mirka
Hintsanen
Olli
Raitakari
Jaakko
Pehkonen
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Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood
Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by using the so-called Type A behavior traits (Aggression, Leadership, ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2017, 8, 9-12)
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L26
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9804
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Giorgio
Di Pietro
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The Impact of Television Programmes on Teenage Career Aspirations The 'MasterChef Effect'
In recent years, in Italy, a larger number of students have chosen to attend vocational hospitality and catering schools. This paper investigates the extent to which this increase may have been ...
(revised version published as 'Do media play a role in promoting vocational education and training? The case of MasterChef' in: Policy Studies, 2018, 39 (1), 37-53)
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I21, J44, C23
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9803
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Matthias
Doepke
Fabian
Kindermann
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Bargaining over Babies: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications
It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (9), 3264 - 3306)
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J13
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9801
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Barbara
Broadway
Guyonne
Kalb
Duncan
McVicar
Bill
Martin
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The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labour Supply and Employment Outcomes
The introduction of the Australian Paid Parental Leave scheme in 2011 provides a rare opportunity to estimate the labour supply and employment impacts of publicly-funded paid leave on mothers in the ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2020, 26( 3), 30-65.)
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J13, J18, J22
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9800
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Yuxin
Yao
Asako
Ohinata
Jan
C.
van Ours
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The Educational Consequences of Language Proficiency for Young Children
This paper studies the educational consequences of language proficiency by investigating the relationship between dialect-speaking and academic performance of 5-6 year old children in the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 1-15)
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J24, I2
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9799
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Ben
Ost
Weixiang
Pan
Douglas
A.
Webber
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The Returns to College Persistence for Marginal Students: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from University Dismissal Policies
We estimate the returns to college using administrative data on college enrollment matched to administrative data on weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (3), 779-805)
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I21, I23, I26
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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