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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - CESifo - 2015
of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation …
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling on Health - Evidence from Biomarkers
Jürges, Hendrik; Kruk, Eberhard; Reinhold, Steffen - CESifo - 2010
Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age … exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …
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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek Famine
Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - CESifo - 2010
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - CESifo - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - CESifo - 2013
through matching estimation whilst controlling for some important confounding factors. The results suggest a link between …
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Tax Policy and Employment: How Does the Swedish System Fare?
Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Hakan - CESifo - 2011
This paper reviews the literature on optimal taxation of labour income and the empirical work on labour supply and the elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on the development in effective marginal tax rates...
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Estimating Labour Supply Elasticities Based on Cross-Country Micro Data: A Bridge Between Micro and Macro Estimates?
Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - CESifo - 2014
We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...
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Profit Sharing and Relative Consumption
Goerke, Laszlo - CESifo - 2012
Traditionally, it has been argued that profit sharing can increase employment and welfare because it lowers marginal labour costs without reducing total cost or labour income. In this paper, we show that profit sharing can also represent a Pareto-improvement if labour supply is excessive due to...
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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2014
This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
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