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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases … and thus limit their breastfeeding. We indeed find that daughters are weaned sooner than sons, and, moreover, for both …

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Unemployment, Growth and Taxation in Industrial Countries

Daveri, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

To the layperson, the upward trend in European unemployment is related to the slowdown in economic growth. We argue that the layperson’s view is correct. The increase in European unemployment and the slowdown in economic growth are related because they stem from a common cause: an excessively...

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Why Does the Self-Employment Rate Vary Across Countries and Over Time?

Acs, Zoltán J; Audretsch, David B; Evans, David S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

There is a tremendous diversity in the level and time-series pattern of the self-employment rate across countries. After documenting this fact with cross-section and time-series data on industrialized and lesser-developed countries, this paper presents and tests a series of hypotheses concerning...

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...

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Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909-2006

Philippon, Thomas; Reshef, Ariell - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We use detailed information about wages, education and occupations to shed light on the evolution of the U.S. financial sector over the past century. We uncover a set of new, interrelated stylized facts: financial jobs were relatively skill intensive, complex, and highly paid until the 1930s and...

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Trends in Quality Adjusted Skill Premia in the US, 1960-2000

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...

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A flying start? Long term consequences of maternal time investments in children during their first year of life

Carneiro, Pedro; Løken, Katrine; Salvanes, Kjell G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We study the impact of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year of her life. In particular, we examine a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave entitlements in Norway. In response to this reform, maternal leave increased on average by 4 months...

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Don’t Spread Yourself Too Thin. The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

Coviello, Decio; Ichino, Andrea; Persico, Nicola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of...

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Short-Sale Constraints and the Pricing of Managerial Skills

Cheng, Si; Massa, Massimo; Zhang, Hong - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We investigate the impact of the absence of short selling on the pricing of managerial skills in the mutual fund industry. In the presence of divergent opinions regarding managerial skills, fund managers can strategically use fees to attract only the most optimistic capital. The recognition of...

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A new measure of skills mismatch: theory and evidence from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)

Fichen, Anne; Pellizzari, Michele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper proposes a new measure of skills mismatch that combines information about skill proficiency, self-reported mismatch and skill use. The theoretical foundations underling this measure allow identifying minimum and maximum skill requirements for each occupation and to classify workers...

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