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Public Employment Services and Employers: How Important are Networks with Firms?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper examines whether contacts between caseworkers in public employment offices and employers impact on the reemployment chances of the unemployed they counsel. This analysis is made possible through a large administrative dataset on unemployed combined with an extensive survey of...

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Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Length of Sentence

Campaniello, Nadia; Diasakos, Theodoros; Mastrobuoni, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

to be significantly lower when par- dons are proposed in congress. This suggests that, amongst inmates in Italian prisons …

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Sexual Orientation, Disclosure and Earnings

Plug, Erik; Berkhout, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

selection? In this paper we address this question and collect new information on workplace disclosure to separate out …/bisexual workers earn about 3 to 4 percent less than other men. Our disclosure estimates, however, provide little evidence that the …

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Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Eleven European Countries

Doblhammer, Gabriele; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Fritze, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios, retirement schemes, pensions and insurances, it becomes increasingly important to understand the determinants of cognitive ability among the elderly. Macro-economic recession and...

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Spousal Employment and Intra-Household Bargaining Power

Antman, Francisca M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...

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Decision-Making by Children

Lundberg, Shelly; Romich, Jennifer; Tsang, Kwok P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model of parental control of child behavior and child...

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Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

Drago, Francesco; Nannicini, Tommaso; Sobbrio, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper evaluates the effects of changes in the supply of news provided by newspapers on electoral participation, political selection, and government efficiency. We address these issues in the Italian context by constructing a new dataset covering the presence of local news by different types...

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Principal Accountability at Private Secondary Schools

Billger, Sherrilyn M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

, I use SASS and Census data to investigate accountability and outcomes at private secondary schools, focusing on … principals, student outcomes, and administrator effectiveness. I find that principals are not rewarded for facing accountability … high quality schools. However, accountability does improve student outcomes at the (conditionally) weakest schools. …

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Unscheduled School Closings and Student Performance

Marcotte, Dave E.; Hemelt, Steven W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Do students perform better on statewide assessments in years in which they have more school days to prepare? We explore this question using data on math and reading assessments taken by students in the 3rd, 5th and 8th grades since 1994 in Maryland. Our identification strategy is rooted in the...

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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub … mechanisms of local accountability are subject to be captured by local elites or are weak, monitoring tools might have limited …

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