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The Impact of Adolescent Motherhood on Education in Chile

Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We analyze the effect of having a child in adolescence on high school completion, educational attainment, and college enrollment in a developing country setting using nine repeated rounds of Chilean household surveys that span the 1990–2009 period. We control for selection bias and household...

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Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile

Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in …

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Vertical Industry Relations, Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Chilean Plants

López, Ricardo A; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We use disaggregated data on Chilean plants, and the Chilean input-output table to examine the impact of agglomeration spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, we find evidence of intra-industry spillovers, but no evidence of crossindustry spillovers in...

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Adolescent Motherhood and Secondary Schooling in Chile

Kruger, Diana; Berthelon, Matias; Navia, Rodrigo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

in Chile. Using eight rounds of household surveys, we find that adolescents who were born to teen mothers, those that …

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Delaying the Bell: The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile

Kruger, Diana; Berthelon, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

opportunities to engage in risky sexual behaviors. Using Chile's socio-economic household surveys and administrative data from the …

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Determinants of Immigrant Homeownership: Examining their Changing Role during the Great Recession and Beyond

Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

, savings, length of stay in the U.S., and citizenship status affect the probability of homeownership before the recession and …

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Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts

Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially …-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine principal-security with lottery-type jackpots, can increase savings among these at …-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …

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Behind the Great Recession: Job Search and Housing Decisions

Rendon, Silvio; Quella, Núria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this paper we analyze a mechanism that is particularly relevant to the workings of the Great Recession: we explain how easier home financing and higher homeownership rates increase unemployment rates. To this purpose we build a model of job search with liquid wealth accumulation and...

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The Saving Behaviour of Two Person Households: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data

Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …

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Severance Pay Mandates: Firing Costs, Hiring Costs, and Firm Avoidance Behaviors

Parsons, Donald O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The potentially adverse labor market effects of severance pay mandates are a continuing source of policy concern. In a seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple – a bonding scheme would do – but that empirically the...

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