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The Allocation of Time in Sleep: a Social Network Model with Sampled Data

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The sampling design of the survey causes the conventional 2SLS estimator to be …

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Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates

van der Klaauw, Bas; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...

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Dynamic Aspects of Teenage Friendships and Educational Attainment

Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study peer effects in education. We first develop a network model that predicts a relationship between own education and peers’ education as measured by direct links in the social network. We then test this relationship using the four waves of the AddHealth data, looking at the impact of...

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Student Networks and Long-Run Educational Outcomes: The Strength of Strong Ties

Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The aim of this paper is to investigate and understand the effect of high-school friends on years of schooling. We develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education. The empirical salience of the model is tested using...

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The Effects of Cannabis Use on Physical and Mental Health

Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether cannabis use affects physical and mental health. To do so, information on prime aged … individuals living in Amsterdam in 1994 is used. Dutch data offer a clear advantage in estimating the health impacts of cannabis … physical and psychological effects of engaging in a criminal activity. Accounting for selection into cannabis use and shared …

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Cannabis Use and Mental Health Problems

Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper investigates whether cannabis use leads to worse mental health. To do so, we account for common unobserved … factors affecting mental health and cannabis consumption by modeling mental health jointly with the dynamics of cannabis use …. Our main finding is that using cannabis increases the likelihood of mental health problems, with current use having a …

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Is Cannabis a Stepping-Stone for Cocaine?

Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper uses a unique dataset collected among inhabitants of Amsterdam, to study the dynamics in the consumption of cannabis and cocaine. If people start using these drugs they are most likely to do so at age 18-20 for cannabis and age 20-25 for cocaine. An analysis of the starting rates...

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Why Parents Worry: Initiation into Cannabis Use by Youth and their Educational Attainment

Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper we use individual level data from the Australian National Drug Strategy Household Survey to study the relationship between initiation into cannabis use and educational attainment. Using instrumental variable estimation and bivariate duration analysis we find that those initiating...

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A Pint a Day Raises a Man's Pay; But Smoking Blows that Gain Away

Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on a recent survey in the Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and...

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Do Consumers Care About How Prices Are Set?

Courty, Pascal; Pagliero, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using a survey approach, we ask consumers to reveal their preferences over pricing schemes that may differ in terms of the average price of consumption, the amount of price variation, and the probability of being rationed. We find that consumers dislike pricing schemes that vary prices more but...

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