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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee place¬ment policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...

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Businesses, Buddies, and Babies: Fertility and Social Interactions at Work

Asphjell, Magne K.; Hensvik, Lena; Nilsson, J. Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

This paper examines how fertility decisions are transmitted within the workplace. Informed by a simple real options model of timing of investments under uncertainty, we show that recent births among co-workers affect women's subsequent childbearing using populationwide matched employer-employee...

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Gender differences in shirking: monitoring or social preferences? Evidence from a field experiment

Johansson, Per; Karimi, Arizo; Nilsson, J Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014

This paper studies gender differences in the extent to which social preferences affect workers’ shirking decisions. Using exogenous variation in work absence induced by a randomized field experiment that increased treated workers’ absence, we find that also non-treated workers increased...

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Demand effects of consumers’ stated and revealed preferences

Engström, Per; Forsell, Eskil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

Knowledge of how consumers react to different quality signals is fundamental for understanding how markets work. We study the online market- place for Android apps where we compare the causal effects on demand from two quality related signals; other consumers' stated and revealed preferences...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Grönqvist, Hans; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008774231

Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy

Grönqvist; Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458263

Study achievement for students with kids

Hallberg, Daniel; Lindh, Thomas; Zamac, Jovan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

In this paper we explore the composition of students, the study length towards diploma, and examine the likelihood of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated …

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