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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6699 Steffen Altmann
Christian Traxler
Nudges at the Dentist
We implement a randomized field experiment to study the impact of reminders on dental health prevention. Patients who are due for a check-up receive no reminder, a neutral reminder postcard, or ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 19-38)
D03, I11, C93
6698 Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Arthur van Soest
Joint Leisure Before and After Retirement: A Double Regression Discontinuity Approach
In the scant literature on partners' joint retirement decisions one of the explanations for joint retirement is externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the ...
(published as 'Partners’ Leisure Time Truly Together Upon Retirement' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, June 2016)
D13, J22, J14, C1
6697 Cristina Borra
Maria Iacovou
Almudena Sevilla
The Effect of Breastfeeding on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Development
This paper uses propensity score matching methods to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and children's cognitive and noncognitive development. We find that breastfeeding for four ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19(4), 496-515.)
I10, J0
6696 Annabelle Krause-Pilatus
Ulf Rinne
Simone Schüller
Kick It Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap
We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap ...
(revised version published in: International Migration Review, 2015, 49 (3), 757–789)
J15, J24, I21
6695 Pernilla Andersson Joona
Nabanita Datta Gupta
Eskil Wadensjö
Overeducation among Immigrants in Sweden: Incidence, Wage Effects and State-Dependence
The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:9)
J61, I21, J24, J31, F22
6694 Aimee Chin
N. Meltem Daysal
Scott A. Imberman
Impact of Bilingual Education Programs on Limited English Proficient Students and Their Peers: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Texas
Texas requires a school district to offer bilingual education when its enrollment of limited English proficient (LEP) students in a particular elementary grade and language is twenty or higher. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 107, 63-78)
I21, J24
6693 Pia M. Orrenius
Madeline Zavodny
Immigrants in Risky Occupations
This chapter reviews the economics literature on immigrant-native differentials in occupational risk. It begins by briefly explaining the theory of compensating wage differentials. It then provides a ...
(published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), The International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, 214-226)
J15, J61, J81
6692 Xavier de Luna
Per Johansson
Testing for Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects in the Presence of a Quasi-Instrument
The identification of average causal effects of a treatment in observational studies is typically based either on the unconfoundedness assumption or on the availability of an instrument. When ...
(published as 'Testing for the Unconfoundedness Assumption Using an Instrumental Assumption' in: Journal of Causal Inference, 2014, 2, 187-199)
C26, C52
6691 Stefan Eriksson
Per Johansson
Sophie Langenskiöld
What is the Right Profile for Getting a Job? A Stated Choice Experiment of the Recruitment Process
We study the recruitment behavior of Swedish employers using data from a stated choice experiment. In the experiment, the employers are first asked to describe an employee who recently and ...
(published in: Emperical Economics, 2017, 53, 803 - 826)
J71
6690 Sebastian Till Braun
Michael Kvasnicka
Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-War Germany
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2014, 93 (2), 253-269)
J61, J21, C36, N34
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