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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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Connecting the Disconnected: Improving Education and Employment Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Youth

Edelman, Peter B.; Holzer, Harry J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

education and employment outcomes, both among in-school youth who are at risk of dropping out and becoming disconnected as well …

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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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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Tonin, Mirco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …

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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

-quarters of the gaps in age-eight IQ and achievement would be eliminated by the early education program. …

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Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects

Dawid, Herbert; Muehlheusser, Gerd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount …

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Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States

Holzer, Harry J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and … with education and training more clearly targeted towards firms and sectors providing good-paying jobs. This paper proposes … employers in key industries, education providers, workforce agencies and intermediaries at the state level, plus a range of …

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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...

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Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules

Del Bono, Emilia; Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

students compelled to stay on in education as a result of this compulsory school leaving rule attain higher qualification …

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Graduate Employment in the UK: An Application of the Gottschalk-Hansen Model

Grazier, Suzanne; O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate …

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