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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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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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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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Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers

Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as "college …

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Does High School Homework Increase Academic Achievement?

Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which are less accurate than time-diary data. However, most time-diary data sets do not contain outcome...

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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?

Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned …

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The Risk and Return of Human Capital Investments

Koerselman, Kristian; Uusitalo, Roope - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

income, and to calculate certainty equivalent lifetime income at different levels of education. We find that university … education is associated with about a half a million euro increase in discounted lifetime disposable income compared to … with only moderately higher lifetime income compared to compulsory education, and the entire difference is due to …

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