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New Evidence on the Impacts of Access to and Attending Universal Childcare in Canada
Kottelenberg, Michael J.; Lehrer, Steven F. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
in program impacts and indicates that some of the negative impacts reported in earlier research are driven by children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184373
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Time Consistency: Stationarity and Time Invariance
Halevy, Yoram - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
A sequence of experiments documents static and dynamic ``preference reversals'' between sooner-smaller and later-larger rewards, when the sooner reward could be immediate. The theoretically-motivated design permits separate identification of time-consistent, stationary and time-invariant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959378
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Strotz meets Allais: Diminishing Impatience and the Certainty Effect: Reply and Corrigendum
Halevy, Yoram; Chakraborty, Anujit - Vancouver School of Economics - 2015
Halevy (2008) establishes a relation between non-standard behaviors in the domains of risk and time. A decision maker who believes that only present consumption is certain while any future consumption is uncertain exhibits diminishing impatience if and only if her preferences on the risk domain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184474
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Time Consistency: Stationarity and Time Invariance
Halevy, Yoram - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
A sequence of experiments documents static and dynamic ``preference reversals'' between sooner-smaller and later-larger rewards, when the sooner reward could be immediate. The theoretically-motivated design permits separate identification of time-consistent, stationary and time-invariant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188091
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Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns among Migrants to Canada
Ferrer, Ana - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
This paper explores the fertility patterns of immigrant children to Canada using the 20 percent sample of the Canadian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493085
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The Mom Effect: Family Proximity and the Labour Force Status of Women in Canada
admin, clsrn - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
is found for married women without young children who co-reside with their mothers (those women most likely to care for … their elderly mothers) and for married women with young children who live more than half a day away from their mothers … married and single women with children work fewer hours if they live far from their mothers. The results hold only for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363221
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Assortative Marriage and the Effects of Government Homecare Subsidy Programs on Gender Wage and Participation Inequality
Bjerk, David; Han, Seungjin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2005
We develop a model of the labor market where firms incur an adjustment cost when one of their workers quits, and males and females form households assortatively by skill. We show how this environment can lead to an economy where females earn less and drop out more frequently than equally skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970947
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Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Wellbeing of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions
Milligan, Kevin; Stabile, Mark - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. One …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970954
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Marché du travail en revue - Novembre 2012
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Du fait de l’entrée importante des femmes sur le marché du travail rémunéré au cours des quarante dernières années, ainsi que du besoin croissant d’un deuxième salaire pour élever une famille, les parents et les employeurs ont de plus en plus demandé aux gouvernements de financer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184393
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The Effect of High School Shootings on Schools and Student Performance
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Kim, Dongwoo - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
We analyze how fatal shootings in high schools affect schools and students using data from shooting databases, school report cards, and the Common Core of Data. We examine schools’ test scores, enrollment, and number of teachers, as well as graduation, attendance, and suspension rates at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184408