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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
Kirdar, Murat G.; Tayfur, Meltem Dayioglu; Koc, Ismet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the new education policy reduces the probability of marriage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225779
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Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703724
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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 … in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the … causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high school students using a longitudinal school dataset. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530646
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Business, Bankruptcy, and Beliefs: The Financial Demise of NBA Stars
Henry, Ruby - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The financial troubles of professional athletes are an ongoing topic of intrigue. In general, the zealousness brought to private equity schemes are a common factor in observed financial insolvency. Considering the behavioral attribute of self-confidence I propose a simple model which explains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705553
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Smart and Dangerous: How Cognitive Skills Drive the Intergenerational Transmission of Retaliation
Henry, Ruby - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
A need exists to understand how people develop an aggressive, retaliatory conflict resolution policy vs. a more passive reconciliation stance. I contribute a choice-theoretic model that explains how cognitive skills drive the transmission of conflict resolution policies. A child’s resolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805627
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The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices
Neilson, Christopher; Zimmerman, Seth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369420
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Survival, Growth, and Interfirm Collaboration of Start-Up Companies in High-Technology Industries: A Case Study of Upper Bavaria
Hampe, Johannes; Steininger, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Our analysis of the survival of firms leads to the important result that the hypotheses about differences between various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the region of location for the probability of survival are confirmed. Many more enterprises are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703089
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Job Losses, Outsourcing and Relocation: Empirical Evidence Using Microdata
Ramos, Raul; Artís, Manuel; Suriñach, Jordi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and outsourcing decisions and their effects on firms’ employment decisions. The results for a sample of 32 countries show that both strategies have been more intense in the EU-15 countries than in the rest and that, in some cases,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703645
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Home Market Effect versus Multinationals
Toulemonde, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823000
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Immigration and Innovation
Maré, David C.; Fabling, Richard; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We combine firm-level innovation data with area-level Census data to examine the relationship between local workforce characteristics, especially the presence of immigrants and local skills, and the likelihood of innovation by firms. We examine a range of innovation outcomes, and test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003954