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The Detaxation of Overtime Hours: Lessons from the French Experiment

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

In October 2007 France introduced an exemption on the income tax and social security contributions that applied to wages received for hours worked overtime. The goal of the policy was to increase the number of hours worked. This article shows that this reform has had no significant impact on...

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Employment and Distributional Effects of Restricting Working Time

Marimon, Ramon; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We study the emplyment and distributional effects of regulating (reducing) working time in a general equilibrium model with search-matching frictions. Job creation entails some fixed costs, but existing jobs are subject to diminishing returns. We characterize the equilibrium in the de-regulated...

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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …

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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...

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College Diversity and Investment Incentives

Gall, Thomas; Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies the aggregate economic effects of diversity policies such as affirmative action in college admission. If agents are constrained in the side payments they can make, the free market allocation displays excessive segregation relative to the first-best. Affirmative action policies...

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Schooling and Youth Mortality: Learning from a Mass Military Exemption

Cipollone, Piero; Rosolia, Alfonso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several …

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Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, is likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...

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Immigration and the School System

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...

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The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration: Causal Evidence from Micro-data

Hjalmarsson, Randi; Holmlund, Helena; Lindquist, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth …

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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …

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