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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...

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Trade-Offs between Different Early Childhood Interventions : Evidence from Ecuador

Rosero, Jose; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011

children and mothers in Ecuador. We find that home visits are beneficial for children's cognitive outcomes and health and for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179423

Voluntary Participation and Intergenerational Risk Sharing in a Funded Pension System

Beetsma, Roel; Romp, Ward; Vos, Siert J. - 2011

We explore the feasibility of a funded pension system with intergenerational risk sharing when participation in the system is voluntary. Typically, the willingness of the young to participate depends on their belief about the future young's willingness to do so. We characterise equilibria with...

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Participation Constraints in Pension Systems

Beetsma, Roel; Romp, Ward - 2013

We explore voluntary participation in pension arrangements. Individuals only participate when participation is more attractive than autarky. The bene??it of participation is that risks can be shared with future generations. We apply our analysis to a pay-as-you-go system, a funded system without...

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Labor Market Prospects, Search Intensity and the Transition from College to Work

van der Klaauw, Bas; van Vuuren, Aico; Berkhout, Peter - 2004

In this paper we develop a structural model for job search behavior of students entering the labor market. The model … includes endogenous search effort and on-the-job search. Since students usually do not start a regular job before graduation …

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Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Schooling Reform

Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006

opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. We conclude from this that the effects of parental income on …

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The (un)importance of school assignment

Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023

engagement, having friends, and students' personality. It seems therefore that the concerns that parents of lottery losers …, attitudes towards school, awareness of parents, behavior inside school, behavior outside school, school satisfaction, civic … express about their children's school assignment are based on the characteristics of schools, teachers and peers and not on …

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The ABC of Housing Strategies: Are Housing Assistance Programs Effective in Enhancing Children's Well Being?

Rosero, Jose - 2012

This paper examines the effect of a housing assistance program on school enrollment, child labor and poverty reduction among poor families in Ecuador. Administrative data is merged to a household panel to link the history of a voucher application with socioeconomic information. Two empirical...

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