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Belief Elicitation in Experiments: Is there a Hedging Problem?

Blanco, Mariana; Engelmann, Dirk; Koch, Alexander K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Belief elicitation in economics experiments usually relies on paying subjects according to the accuracy of stated beliefs in addition to payments for other decisions. Such incentives, however, allow risk-averse subjects to hedge with their stated beliefs against adverse outcomes of other...

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Migration, Economic Crisis and Adjustment in the UK

Clark, Ken; Drinkwater, Stephen; Robinson, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

and labour market outcomes are also analysed, including how these relate to changes in the economy and migration policy …

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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life

Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …

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How Do Tougher Immigration Measures Impact Unauthorized Immigrants?

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Puttitanun, Thitima; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The recent impetus of tougher immigration-related measures passed at the state-level raises concerns about the impact of such measures on the migration experience, trajectory and future plans of unauthorized immigrants. In a recent and unique survey of Mexican unauthorized immigrants interviewed...

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Optimal Immigration Policy: Permanent, Guest-Worker, or Mode IV?

Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

share of migrants’ income whose payment is deferred. The maximization also takes into account the impact of the policy on … solves for the policy measures, the overstaying probability, and the level of illegal migration. The paper concludes that the … optimal policy is a combination of Mode IV-type and permanent migration. …

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Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics

Yashiv, Eran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment determined as equilibrium phenomena? What...

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Climbing the Drug Staircase: A Bayesian Analysis of the Initiation of Hard Drug Use

Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line; Jacobi, Liana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

been influential in formulating a strict drug policy in many western countries. Individual differences in proneness and … different policy implications. We propose a Bayesian estimation and predictive framework to analyze the effects and relative … importance of previous cannabis use, proneness and accessibility factors on hard drug initiation and to explore potential policy …

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Skill Policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and … malleable at later ages. This has important implications for the design of policy. The gaps in skills and abilities open up …

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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany

Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...

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Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds

Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This study presents quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of expanding early schooling enrollment possibilities on early achievement. It exploits two features of the school system in Holland. The first is rolling admissions; children are allowed start school immediately after their 4th...

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