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Twins-based estimates of the return to schooling feature prominently in the labor economics literature. The validity of such estimates hinges critically on the assumption that within-pair variation in schooling is explained by factors which are unrelated to wage earning ability. This paper...
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We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having...
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. Our first main result is that the more the heir inherits, the lower her labor income becomes. This labor supply effect … transfer. Our second main result is that the more the heir inherits, the higher her capital income becomes. This savings effect …
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In this paper we use newly compiled top income share data to estimate common breaks and trends across countries over … seem to be as clear cut as previously suggested. Some continental European countries have had increases in top income … display a marked "Anglo-Saxon" pattern, with sharply increased top income shares. Unlike in the Anglo-Saxon countries, however …
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We study the impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on economic performance in Sweden. The pandemic was one of the severest and deadliest pandemics in human history, but it has hitherto received only scant attention in the economic literature - despite important implications for modern-day...
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. However, social interactive ability turns out to be important for low aptitude students, whilst the reverse holds for … cognitive abilities. In fact, while high performing students benefit from high cognitive teachers, being matched to such a … students, whereas others may even benefit. High cognitive and non-cognitive abilities thus need not necessarily translate into …
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