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This paper uses the mass migration wave to Israel in the 1990s to examine the impact of immigrant concentration during elementary school on the long-term academic outcomes of native students in high school. To identify the causal effect of immigrant children on their native peers, the empirical...
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The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many researchers to use the ratio of the 90th and 10th...
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This paper examines the 1997 additions to the Current Population Survey education question. These new questions allow researchers to come closer to the "highest grade completed" measure available before 1992. Using the new information, the average imputed "highest grade completed" is one-tenth...
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Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current Population Surveys. Our closed-form identification of the...
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To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed using complete data methods. Estimation and inference...
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of OLS and IV estimates also indicates negative selection into volunteering for both genders. In a model of optimal … volunteering, negative selection implies that a reduction in the cost of volunteering will lead to an expanded and higher …
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This paper presents a model and experimental evidence to explain the "volunteering puzzle" where agents prefer … volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient …
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This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to … adverse selection mechanism which is consistent with the negative returns to volunteering found in reduced-form wage … of future consumption. The structural estimates also imply that the economic returns to volunteering are relatively more …
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Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam Smith, helping others is the … its infrastructure of volunteering. People who accidentally lost their opportunities for volunteering are compared to …
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This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
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