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the average school-leaving age of students holding the same certificate or degree. We use past school-opening instruments …, and distance-to-the-nearest-college, also measured in the past, when students were entering grade 6, to identify the …
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Using data from the 2001-2005 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, and taking …
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Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is...
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What impact do income and other demographic factors have on a voter’s partisan choice? Using post-election surveys of …
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. We employ an innovative measure of family income to compare applicant and admissions trends for low-income students … task due to limited data and biased measures of family income. We complement previous work and provide a replicable model …-Madison, a major public university – the kind that is supposed to offer excellent opportunities to students from all backgrounds …
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The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on the span between the start of trade talks and their...
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inheritance. Wealth-income ratios, inherited wealth, and wealth inequalities were high in the 18th-19th centuries up untilWorldWar …-of-tax rate of return on wealth and g is the economy's growth rate. This suggests that current trends toward rising wealth-income …
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Using annual data from several sources, we study the evolution of M1, M2, income, prices and long and short interest … rates in Ireland over the period 1933-2012. We find cointegration and that prices, income and interest rates are weakly … relatively high income elasticity, and detect parameter instability. We estimate a short-run M2 demand function that passes a …
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