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Preterm Births and Educational Disadvantage : Heterogeneous Effects Across Families and Schools

Baranowska-Rataj, Anna - 2019

effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that …

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Happiness as a driver of risk-avoiding behavior

Goudie, Robert J. B.; Mukherjee, Sach; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2011

Understanding the reasons why individuals take risks, particularly unnecessary risks, remains an important question in economics. We provide the first evidence of a powerful connection between happiness and risk-avoidance. Using data on 300,000 Americans, we demonstrate that happier individuals...

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The Usual Suspects : Does Risk Tolerance, Altruism, and Health Predict the Response to Covid-19?

Sheth, Ketki - 2020

Using a registered pre-analysis plan, we survey college students during Californiaâ€™s Stay-at-Home order to test whether compliance with social distancing requirements depends on key parameters that affect their marginal benefit from doing so. We find a quarter of students violated the...

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Going Back to School Takes Time : Evidence from a Negative Trade Shock

Garon, Jean-Denis - 2020

We estimate the impact of a negative trade shock on labour market outcomes and educational choices of workers. We exploit the Canadian lumber exports crisis beginning in 2007 in a quasi-experimental design. We find that the employment probability of forestry industry workers decreased by 4.1...

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How Does Reducing the Intensity of Tracking Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from German State Reforms

Piopiunik, Marc - 2021

To investigate the effects of reducing the intensity of tracking, this study exploits reforms across German states which combined the two lower secondary school tracks, sometimes additionally offering the possibility to acquire a university entrance qualification. Using a...

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The Impact of All-Day Schools on Student Achievement - Evidence from Extending School Days in German Primary Schools

Seidlitz, Arnim; Zierow, Larissa - 2021

This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students with municipality-level information on all-day school...

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The Effects of Free Secondary School Track Choice : A Disaggregated Synthetic Control Approach

Osikominu, Aderonke; Pfeifer, Gregor; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2021

rates to the higher school tracks increased substantially, with stronger responses among children from richer districts …

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Equity fund ownership and the cross-regional diversification of household risk

Becker, Sascha O.; Hoffmann, Mathias - 2008

We explore the link between portfolio home bias and consumption risk sharing among Italian regions using aggregated household level information on consumption, income and portfolio holdings. We propose to use data on equity fund ownership to proxy for regional home bias: equity funds are...

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In search for yield? New survey-based evidence on bank risk taking

Buch, Claudia M.; Eickmeier, Sandra; Prieto, Esteban - 2011

There is growing consensus that the conduct of monetary policy can have an impact on financial and economic stability through the risk-taking incentives of banks. Falling interest rates might induce a 'search for yield' and generate incentives to invest into risky activities. This paper provides...

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The nature of risk preferences: Evidence from insurance choices

Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2012

We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates standard risk aversion (diminishing marginal utility for wealth) and probability distortions. We find that probability distortions - characterized by substantial overweighting of small...

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