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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Angrist, Joshua; Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Hull, Peter D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn’t capture treatment effects for students who haven’t applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for which demand is weak. This paper reports...

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In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno

Angrist, Joshua; Battistin, Erich; Vuri, Daniela - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

An instrumental variables (IV) identification strategy that exploits statutory class size caps shows significant achievement gains in smaller classes in Italian primary schools. Gains from small classes are driven mainly by schools in Southern Italy, suggesting a substantial return to class size...

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Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cutoff

Angrist, Joshua; Rokkanen, Miikka - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

In the canonical regression discontinuity (RD) design for applicants who face an award or admissions cutoff, causal effects are nonparametrically identified for those near the cutoff. The impact of treatment on inframarginal applicants is also of interest, but identification of such effects...

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Retirement Timing of Women and the Role of Care Responsibilities for Grandchildren

Lumsdaine, Robin L.; Vermeer, Stephanie J.C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women … nearing retirement age. Using 47,400 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival … of a new grandchild is associated with a more than eight percent increase in the retirement hazard despite little overall …

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Time is Money: Life Cycle Rational Inertia and Delegation of Investment Management

Mitchell, Olivia; Kim, Hugh Hoikwang; Maurer, Raimond - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper incorporates two empirically-grounded insights into a dynamic life cycle portfolio choice model: the fact that investors forego the opportunity to accumulate job-specific skills when they spend time managing their own money, and the observation that efficiency in financial decision...

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Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mok, Wallace K C - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Using longitudinal data for 1968-2009 for male household heads, we determine the prevalence of pre- retirement age …

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How Family Status and Social Security Claiming Options Shape Optimal Life Cycle Portfolios

Mitchell, Olivia; Hubener, Andreas; Maurer, Raimond - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

determining retirement, spousal, and survivor benefits, along with benefit adjustments that vary with the age at which these are … consistent with empirical evidence. We also confirm predictions that wives will claim retirement benefits earlier than husbands …

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Spousal Labor Market Effects from Government Health Insurance: Evidence from a Veterans Affairs Expansion

Lahey, Joanna N.; Boyle, Melissa A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

leisure would predict a decrease in labor supply for both spouses. Utilizing a mid-1990s expansion of health insurance for U … the Current Population Survey and Health and Retirement Study, we employ a difference-in-differences strategy to compare … supply increases, suggesting that financial incentives dominate complementarities of spousal leisure. This effect is …

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The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work

Hamermesh, Daniel; Donald, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

-market activities, reducing leisure time and mostly increasing time devoted to household production. Similar results are found using …-side explanation for the frequently observed discrete drop from full-time work to complete retirement. …

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Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men

Bound, John; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Waidmann, Timothy Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

is estimated using data from the Health and Retirement Study. We compare results based on our model to results based on … the normal retirement age, eliminating early retirement altogether and eliminating the Social Security Disability …

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