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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 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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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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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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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence

Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-worker pay and establishment … Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of workplace education and training using both subjective (managers’ assessments …) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …

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Intergenerational Effects in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?

Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … mother’s or father’s education raises children’s education by about 0.1 year. Our estimated income elasticities are around 0.1. …

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Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment

Krueger, Alan B.; Zhu, Pei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper reexamines data from the New York City school choice program, the largest and best implemented private school scholarship experiment yet conducted. In the experiment, low-income public school students in grades K-4 were eligible to participate in a series of lotteries for a private...

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Diverging Patterns of Education Premium and School Attendance in France and the US: A Walrasian View

de la Croix, David; Docquier, Frédéric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable general equilibrium model with overlapping … generations of individuals, and endogenous education decisions. Human capital is made of two substitutable components, experience … and education, both of them evolve endogenously over time. We calibrate this model on the post-war period and run …

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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan among Sons and Daughters: Levels and Trends

Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

basis of a rich set of variables including education, occupation and job characteristics and we discuss changes in the …

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