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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9175 Prashant Bharadwaj
Petter Lundborg
Dan-Olof Rooth
Birth Weight in the Long-Run
We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(1), 189-231)
I10, I18
9174 Prashant Bharadwaj
Petter Lundborg
Dan-Olof Rooth
Health and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises
This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early ...
(published as "Birth weight and vulnerability to a macroeconomic crisis": Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 136-144. )
I10, I18, J65, E32
9173 Susan L. Averett
Yang Wang
The Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Non-Cognitive Skills
In 1993, the benefit levels of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) were changed significantly based on the number of children in the household. Employing a difference-in-differences plus mother ...
(published as 'Effects of Higher EITC Payments on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Noncognitive Skills ' in: Public Finance Review, 2018, 46 (4), 519-557 )
I12, I38, J13
9172 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes
Healthy(?), Wealthy, and Wise: Birth Order and Adult Health
While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores, and earnings, the evidence for effects on health is more limited. This paper ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 27 - 45)
I1, J1
9170 Stijn Baert
Olivier Rotsaert
Dieter Verhaest
Eddy Omey
A Signal of Diligence? Student Work Experience and Later Employment Chances
We investigate the impact of student work experience on later hiring chances. To completely rule out potential endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work ...
(revised version published as 'Student Employment and Later Labour Market Success: No Evidence for Higher Employment Chances' in: Kyklos, 2016, 69 (3), 401 - 425)
J24, I21, D83, C93
9169 Sandra E. Black
Kalena E. Cortes
Jane Arnold Lincove
Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application
Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2020, 15 (2), 209-240)
I21, I23, I24, J15, J18
9167 Erica Blom
Brian C. Cadena
Benjamin J. Keys
Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice
This paper examines the relationship between individuals' personal exposure to economic conditions and their investment choices in the context of human capital. Focusing on bachelor's degree ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 1043–1082)
E32, I23, J22, J24
9166 Pierre M. Picard
Yves Zenou
Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties: European versus American Cities
We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and their social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition some ...
(published as 'Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 104, 77-93.)
A14, J15, R14, Z13
9165 Xin Meng
Chikako Yamauchi
Children of Migrants: The Impact of Parental Migration on Their Children's Education and Health Outcomes
In the past 15 years around 160 million Chinese rural workers migrated to cities to work. Because of restrictions on migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant ...
(published as 'Children of Migrants: The Cumulative Impact of Parental Migration on Children's Education and Health Outcomes in China' in: Demography, 2017, 54 (5), 1677-1714)
J38, I28
9164 Matthias Parey
Jens Ruhose
Fabian Waldinger
Nicolai Netz
The Selection of High-Skilled Migrants
We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries are positively selected relative to non-migrants, while migrants to more equal ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99(5), 776-792)
F22, J24, J31, J61
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