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The Threat of Monitoring Job Search. A Discontinuity Design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - CESifo - 2010
Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the effect of a notification sent at least 8 months before job search is verified. The threat of...
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Benefit-Cost Analysis of Environmental Projects: A Plethora of Systematic Biases
Graves, Philip E. - CESifo - 2010
There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...
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The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010
Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
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Determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in Romania: A Multilevel Analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - CESifo - 2010
The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM)....
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The Estimation of Multi-dimensional Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
Balazsi, Laszlo; Matyas, Laszlo; Wansbeek, Tom J. - CESifo - 2015
The paper introduces the appropriate within estimators for the most frequently used three-dimensional fixed effects panel data models. It analyzes the behavior of these estimators in the cases of no self-flow data, unbalanced data, and dynamic autoregressive models. The main results are then...
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Nineteenth Century Black and Mulatto Physical Activity, Calories, and Life Expectancy
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2014
rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition … expectancy was not likely due to improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per … day than workers in other occupations. Black diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and rural blacks in the …
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Nineteenth Century White Physical Activity and Calories: Socioeconomic Status and Diets
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2014
expectancy increased at the same time that nutrition decreased, indicating that the most important source of increased life … expectancy was not improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per day than workers … in other occupations. White diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and whites in the rural Deep South …
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Nineteenth Century US Black and White Physical Activity and Nutritional Trends among the Working Class
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2012
Much has been written about 19th century African American and white statures and body mass index values. However, little is known about their physical activity and calories required to sustain height and weight. This paper considers two alternative measures for biological conditions that address...
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