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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8032 Maria Knoth Humlum
Nina Smith
Long-Term Effects of School Size on Students' Outcomes
We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 45, 28-43)
I21, I28, J24
8031 Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll
Libertad González
Newborn Health and the Business Cycle: Is It Good to Be Born in Bad Times?
We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We find that babies are born healthier when the local unemployment rate is high. ...
(published as 'Recessions and Babies' Health' in: Economics & Human Biology, Volume 37, May 2020, 100836.)
E32, I10, J13
8030 Peng Nie
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey
Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46(20), 2418–2428)
I12, J13, J22
8029 Petri Böckerman
Alex Bryson
Jutta Viinikainen
Christian Hakulinen
Laura Pulkki-Raback
Olli Raitakari
Biomarkers and Long-term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine
Using the Young Finns Study (YFS) combined with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) we show that quantities of creatine measured in 1980 prior to labour market entry affect labour ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 259-274)
J24, J31, I12
8028 Sandra Nieto
Raul Ramos
Decomposition of Differences in PISA Results in Middle Income Countries
Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high ...
(published in: Prospects, 2015, 45(3), 325-343)
J24, I21, I25
8026 R?ta Ubarevi?ien?
Maarten van Ham
Donatas Burneika
Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country: The Geography of Population Decline in Lithuania 2001-2011
Shrinking populations have been gaining increasing attention, especially in post-socialist East and Central European countries. While most studies focus on the population decline of capital cities ...
(published in: Urban Studies Research, 2106, Article 5395379 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5395379))
J11, J61, P20, R23
8023 Tirthatanmoy Das
Solomon Polachek
Unanticipated Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program
We examine the effect of California Paid Family Leave (CPFL) on young women's (less than 42 years of age) labor force participation and unemployment. CPFL enables workers to take at most six weeks of ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2015, 33 (4), 619-635. )
H43, J13, J18, J48
8021 Maria De Paola
Vincenzo Scoppa
Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 217–236)
D03, I21, D91, J01, J24
8020 Silvia Angerer
Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp Lergetporer
Matthias Sutter
Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 67-74)
C91, D03, D63, D64
8019 Peter Fredriksson
Björn Öckert
Hessel Oosterbeek
Inside the Black Box of Class Size: Mechanisms, Behavioral Responses, and Social Background
Studies on the effect of class size on student achievement typically find that disadvantaged students benefit more from reduced class size than others. To better understand this differential impact, ...
(published as 'Parental Responses to Public Investments in Children: Evidence from a Maximum Class Size Rule' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51(4), 832-868.)
I21, I28, J24, C31
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