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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of the Demographic Transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...

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A Reappraisal of the Virtues of Private Sector Employment Programmes

Graversen, Brian Krogh; Jensen, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

information on participation in labour market programmes and subsequent employment. Using a latent variable model, we estimate …

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Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies

Dube, Arindrajit; Zipperer, Ben - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We propose a simple, distribution-free method for pooling synthetic control case studies using the mean percentile rank. We also test for heterogeneous treatment effects using the distribution of estimated ranks, which has a known form. We propose a cross-validation based procedure for model...

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Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G.; Rützler, Daniela; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...

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Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences

Cleave, Blair L.; Nikiforakis, Nikos; Slonim, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Laboratory experiments are frequently used to examine the nature of individual preferences and inform economic theory. However, it is unknown whether the preferences of volunteer participants are representative of the population from which the participants are drawn or whether they differ due to...

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Assessing the External Validity of an Experimental Wage Subsidy

Kamionka, Thierry; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In Canada, a policy aiming at helping single parents on social assistance become self-reliant was implemented on an experimental basis. The Self-Sufficiency Entry Effects Demonstration randomly selected a sample of 4,134 single parents who had applied for welfare between January 1994 and March...

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Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid

Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

sanitation). We also find that effects are stronger during the fetal period (2nd trimester of gestation), for children born …

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Have You Heard the News? How Real-Life Expectations React to Publicity

van der Wiel, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to … affect how people picture the future. This paper studies the role of public information dissemination, or publicity, in a …

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The Role of Information and Institutions in Understanding the Black-White Gap in Self-Employment

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Belton, Willie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

repeated negative institutional shocks and how such shocks influence the development of an information matrix as well as the … transmission of information across time and generations. We show that African-Americans who were less likely to be influenced by … negative institutional shocks and the information stock created from these experiences, have similar self-employment rates to …

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Ranking the Schools: How Quality Information Affects School Choice in the Netherlands

Koning, Pierre; van der Wiel, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice … information responses between socio-economic groups. …

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