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Birth Order and Sibship Sex Composition as Instruments in the Study of Education and Earnings

Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Picard, Natalie; Prieto, Ana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

educational achievements of individuals, as well as many aspects of family background, including birth order, number of sisters … higher number of siblings has a negative effect in general, holding birth order constant, except when parents belong to the … are both significant and substantial, even when many controls are included in the regressions. A high rank among siblings …

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Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks

De Weerdt, Joachim; Genicot, Garance; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from …

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

Modin, Bitte; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

--1929 covering birth weight, family characteristics, school grades, sibling identifiers, and outcomes later in life including the …

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The Allocation of Time in Sleep: a Social Network Model with Sampled Data

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

sleeping behaviour, besides the impact of individual, family and friend characteristics. …

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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics

Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We apply a regression discontinuity design to estimate the returns to being elected to parliament or to a municipal council. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness in any electoral system, and apply it to the Finnish proportional open list system. Getting elected to...

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Reserve Price Effects in Auctions: Estimates from Multiple RD Designs

Choi, Syngjoo; Nesheim, Lars; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We present evidence from 260,000 online auctions of second-hand cars to identify the impact of public reserve prices on auction outcomes. We exploit multiple discontinuities in the relationship between reserve prices and vehicle characteristics to present causal RD estimates of reserve price...

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National Institutions and African Development: Evidence from Partitioned Ethnicities

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We investigate the role of national institutions on regional development in a novel framework. We exploit the fact that the arbitrary political boundaries in the eve of African independence partitioned more than two hundred ethnic groups across different countries subjecting similar cultures,...

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When the Baby Cries at Night: Uninformed and Hurried Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets

Calzolari, Giacomo; Ichino, Andrea; Manaresi, Francesco; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study the entrance in a retail market of consumers who are less elastic because of hurriedness and lack of information. Theory predicts that firms react by increasing prices to expand surplus extraction, but this effect weakens as market competition increases. High frequency data from Italian...

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Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Lalive, Rafael; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find...

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Government Transfers and Political Support

Manacorda, Marco; Miguel, Edward; Vigorito, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We estimate the impact of a large anti-poverty program - the Uruguayan PANES - on political support for the government that implemented it. The program mainly consisted of a monthly cash transfer for a period of roughly two and half years. Using the discontinuity in program assignment based on a...

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