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Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

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Education and the Political Economy of Environmental Protection

Raffin, Natacha - HAL - 2010

educational choices. Individuals decide whether to invest in additional education according to their expectations regarding future …. Then, we analyse the long-term implications of a public policy that would favour education and make it possible to select …

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The German Labor Market after the Great Recession: Successful Reforms and Future Challenges

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – which was favorable for the German economy structure – but also in a series of labor market...

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The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe

Hoareau, Cécile; Ritzen, Jo; Marconi, Gabriele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national …’ for higher education institutions, or in other words provide them with appropriate resources and regulatory environments … higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …

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Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives

Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on research findings from the existing academic literature on the economics of French migration. The research questions are: how do immigrants fare with respect to wages,...

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The Long and Short of It: Maternity Leave Coverage and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes

Hashimoto, Masanori; Percy, Rick; Schoellner, Teresa; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We investigate the effects of maternity leave coverage on women’s post-birth wages, job tenure, and labor market attachment. We pay particular attention to unobservable characteristics that are correlated with maternity leave coverage and that affect labor market outcomes. We use a control...

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Income Support Systems, Labor Market Policies and Labor Supply: The German Experience

Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In view of the demographic trends, most EU countries face the problem of a declining work force in the future. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and pension systems) and total labor supply is of...

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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …

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Estimating the Returns to Schooling Using Cohort-Level Maternal Education as an Instrument

Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American … Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education …

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De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by...

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