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Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension Across Generations : Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes
Kaufmann, Katja; Özdemir, Yasemin; Ye, Han - 2022
We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members’ labor supply and child outcomes by exploiting a Dutch pension reform in a fuzzy Regression Discontinuity design. A one-hour increase in grandmothers’ hours worked causes adult daughters with young children to work...
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Setting a Good Example? Examining Sibling Spillovers in Education Achievement Using a Regression Discontinuity Design
Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2019
We identify externalities in human capital production function arising from sibling spillovers. Using regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover effects from an older to a younger child in less...
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory...
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Are There No Wage Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany? A Reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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Parental Resources and College Attendance : Evidence from Lottery Wins
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W.; Goodman, Sarena; … - 2021
We examine U.S. children whose parents won the lottery to trace out the effect of financial resources on college attendance. The analysis leverages federal tax and financial aid records and substantial variation in win size and timing. While per-dollar effects are modest, the relationship is...
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Globalization, gender and development: The effect of parental labor supply on child schooling
Marchand, Beyza Ural; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond - 2011
Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within households, which in turn affects child outcomes. We estimate how changes in parental labor supply due to these tariff reductions affect child schooling by focusing on young...
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Unemployment and gang crime: could prosperity backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2007
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
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Violent groups and police tactics : should tear gas make crime preventers cry?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2005
marginal cost of violence always reduces violence, while increasing the indiscriminate fixed cost may backfire and result in …
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Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence - Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Kotsadam, Andreas - 2020
We identify the effects of employment on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) by collaborating with 27 large companies in …
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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Utar, Hale - 2019
Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … as the Mexican Drug War. The empirical strategy uses spatiotemporal variation in violence across Mexican cities and an …
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