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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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We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in …
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in Chile. Using eight rounds of household surveys, we find that adolescents who were born to teen mothers, those that …
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opportunities to engage in risky sexual behaviors. Using Chile's socio-economic household surveys and administrative data from the …
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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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concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i …-being depending more on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other …
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Previous empirical work has shown that the self-employed are generally more satisfied than salaried workers. This paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data from the ECHP and British data from the BHPS, we investigate the domains over which this...
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satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how …
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Socio-Economic Panel and estimate the substitution by a CES-utility function of general utility/satisfaction. Given this …
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neighbourhoods. This income information is matched to demographic and economic satisfaction variables from eight years of Danish ECHP … data. Panel regression analysis shows that, conditional on own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction … marginal effect in satisfaction terms. …
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