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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8393 Daniela Del Boca
Christopher Flinn
Matthew Wiswall
Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development
In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of various transfer policies on the distribution of child outcomes. We develop a cost ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 526, F138-F183)
J13, D1
8392 John Jerrim
John Micklewright
Socioeconomic Gradients in Children's Cognitive Skills: Are Cross-Country Comparisons Robust to Who Reports Family Background?
The international surveys of pupil achievement – PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS – have been widely used to compare socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic ...
(revised version published in: European Sociological Review, 2014, 30 (6), 766 - 781)
C21, C81, I24
8391 Silvia Mendolia
Maternal Working Hours and the Well-Being of Adolescent Children
This study investigates how maternal working hours are related to various outcomes in children aged 11 to 15 using a sample of mothers and adolescents in the British Household Panel Survey. Research ...
(published in Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2016, 37, 566 - 580)
I10, J13, J22
8390 Charles L. Baum
Christopher J. Ruhm
The Effects of Paid Family Leave in California on Labor Market Outcomes
Using data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY-97), we examine the effects of California's paid family leave program (CA-PFL) on mothers' and fathers' use of leave ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35 (2), 333 - 356)
J1, J2, J3, J13, J18
8389 Elvira Andersson
Petter Lundborg
Johan Vikström
Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 131, 21 - 32)
D91, H31, H55, I10, I12, I38
8388 Barry Hirsch
Julia Manzella
Who Cares – and Does It Matter? Measuring Wage Penalties for Caring Work
Economists and sociologists have proposed arguments for why there can exist wage penalties for work involving helping and caring for others, penalties borne disproportionately by women. Evidence on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 40, 213-275)
J16, J31
8387 Elizabeth Kaletski
Nishith Prakash
Can Elected Minority Representatives Affect Health Worker Visits? Evidence from India
This paper examines the relationship between elected minority representatives, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2017, 21 (1), 67 - 102)
I18, I38, J15
8386 Pilar Garcia-Gomez
Anne C. Gielen
Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform
We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter eligibility criteria and reduced generosity. Our results show substantial adverse ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), 606-621.)
I14, H53, I38
8384 Willie Belton
Yameen Huq
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?
In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2018, 9 (2), Article 1)
D71, Z10, J10, J19
8383 Annabelle Krause-Pilatus
Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
How Far Away Is a Single European Labor Market?
A Single European Labor Market, particularly involving the free movement of workers within Europe, has been a goal of the European community since the 1950s. Whereas it may entail opportunities and ...
(revised version published as 'European Labor Market Integration: What the Experts Think' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (7), 954-974)
J40, J61, J68
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