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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9374 Olof Aslund
Hans Grönqvist
Caroline Hall
Jonas Vlachos
Education and Criminal Behavior: Insights from an Expansion of Upper Secondary School
We study the impact on criminal activity from a large scale Swedish reform of vocational upper secondary education, extending programs from two to three years and adding more general theoretical ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 178-192)
K42
9373 Oliver Falck
Robert Gold
Stephan Heblich
Lifting the Iron Curtain: School-Age Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions
We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2017, 17 (5), 1111–1148, )
L26, I21, J24, P30
9372 Sari Pekkala Kerr
Tuomas Pekkarinen
Matti Sarvimäki
Roope Uusitalo
Post-Secondary Education and Information on Labor Market Prospects: A Randomized Field Experiment
We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools in Finland. Graduating students in treatment schools were surveyed and given information on the labor ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101888)
J24, I23
9371 David L. Sjoquist
John V. Winters
The Effects of State Merit Aid Programs on Attendance at Elite Colleges
State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities to measure ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (2), 527-549)
H31, I22, J24
9370 Kamilla Gumede
Michael Rosholm
Your Move: The Effect of Chess on Mathematics Test Scores
We analyze the effect of substituting a weekly mathematics lessons in primary school grades 1-3 with a lesson in mathematics based on chess instruction. We use data from the City of Aarhus in ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2017, 12 (5), e0177257)
I21, I28
9369 Michael Grossman
The Relationship between Health and Schooling: What's New?
Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more ...
(published in: Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 3 (1), 7 -17)
I10, I20
9368 Hannes Schwandt
Amelie Wuppermann
The Youngest Get the Pill: ADHD Misdiagnosis and the Production of Education in Germany
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a leading diagnosed health condition among children in many developed countries but the causes underlying these high levels of ADHD remain highly ...
(published as 'The youngest get the pill: ADHD misdiagnosis in Germany, its regional correlates and international comparison' in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 72-86)
I1, I2, J1
9367 Carlos Carrillo-Tudela
Leo Kaas
Worker Mobility in a Search Model with Adverse Selection
We analyze the effects of adverse selection on worker turnover and wage dynamics in a frictional labor market. We consider a model of on-the-job search where firms offer promotion wage contracts to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 160, 340 - 386.)
D82, J63, J64
9366 Carlos Carrillo-Tudela
Melvyn Coles
Quit Turnover and the Business Cycle: A Survey
The focus of this chapter is to consider new developments in the search and matching literature where wages, quit turnover and unemployment are endogenously determined in economies with aggregate ...
(published in: Saridakis, G.; Cooper, C. (eds.) Research Handbook on Employee Turnover, Chapter 13, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2016.)
J62, J63, J64
9363 Samuel Mühlemann
Mirjam Strupler Leiser
Ten Facts You Need To Know About Hiring
We provide new empirical evidence regarding the magnitude and the determinants of a firm's costs required to fill a vacancy. The average costs required to fill a vacancy for a skilled worker in ...
(published as "Hiring costs and labor market tightness" in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 122-131.)
J32, J63, M53
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