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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - In: Journal of public economics 220 (2023), pp. 1-10

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Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal; … - 2021

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

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When the great equalizer shuts down : schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times

Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - In: Journal of public economics 206 (2022), pp. 1-10

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Should Schools Grade Student Behavior? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Comportment Grade Reforms

Schoner, Florian; Mergele, Lukas; Zierow, Larissa - 2021

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

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Sitting Next to a Dropout - Academic Success of Students with More Educated Peers

Goller, Daniel; Diem, Andrea; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first-time students’ success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …

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A case for taxing charitable donations

Blumkin, Tomer; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - In: Journal of public economics 91 (2007) 7/8, pp. 1555-1564

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On the Desirability of Taxing Charitable Contributions

Blumkin, Tomer - 2007

We develop a model that allows for public goods and status signaling through charitable contributions. This model provides a unified framework in which contributions are driven both by altruism and status signaling. We use this setup to re-examine the conventional practice of rendering a...

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The Political Economy of Intergenerational Cooperation

Cigno, Alessandro - 2021

The paper examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. After establishing a normative framework, we examine the properties of the...

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The impact of an adult education voucher program : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 7/8, pp. 569-583

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"The Double Dividend of Training" - Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland

Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...

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