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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2011
negative residual effect of women's education on fertility. Instrumental-variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …'s education driven by differences in landownership inequality, suggest that the effect of women's education on fertility is causal. …While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as …
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Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2012
positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … Italian working women using administrative data. We exploit a reform that introduced in 1990 costs for dismissals unmotivated …
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Does Culture Cause Economic Development? A Reassessment of the Evidence from European Regions
Edwards, Jeremy - CESifo - 2012
This paper shows that Tabellini’s recent claim to have provided evidence that culture has a causal effect on economic development is unjustified. Tabellini’s claim is based on an instrumental variables analysis in which two instruments are used to identify the supposed causal effect. One of...
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Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - CESifo - 2012
mortality for women. …
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling on Health - Evidence from Biomarkers
Jürges, Hendrik; Kruk, Eberhard; Reinhold, Steffen - CESifo - 2010
-reactive protein levels. However, we find ambiguous causal effects of schooling on women's self-rated health and insignificant causal …
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Rainy Day Politics - An Instrumental Variables Approach to the Effect of Parties on Political Outcomes
Lind, Jo Thori - CESifo - 2014
Rain affects electoral turnout both through a direct effect on the cost of voting and by changing the opportunity cost. In a panel of Norwegian municipalities I find that rain on Election Day increases turnout. As turnout affects electoral outcomes, rain provides an exogeneous source of...
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Adults' Financial Literacy and Households' Financial Assets: The Role of Banks Information Policies
Fort, Margherita; Manaresi, Francesco; Trucchi, Serena - CESifo - 2014
We investigate the role of banks information policies in fostering the accumulation of financial knowledge. In Italy, banks belonging to the PattiChiari Consortium implement policies aimed at increasing transparency and procedural simplification, without offering services at lower cost with...
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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region’s lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013060
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The Pungent Smell of "Red Herrings": Subsoil Assets, Rents, Volatility and the Resource Curse
Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Poelhekke, Steven - CESifo - 2010
Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2008) provide cross-country evidence that the resource curse is a “red herring” once one corrects for endogeneity of resource exports and allows resource abundance affect growth. Their results show that resource exports are no longer significant while the value of...
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Testing the Tax Competition Theory: How Elastic are National Tax Bases in OECD Countries?
Riedl, Aleksandra; Rocha-Akis, Silvia - CESifo - 2009
To what extent do countries' corporate income tax (CIT) rates attract foreign tax bases? What are the revenue implications of a unilateral tax reduction when tax bases are internationally mobile? These questions are explored using a panel of annual data from 17 OECD countries spanning the period...
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