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The influence of peers could play an important role in the take up of social programs. However, estimating peer effects has proven challenging given the problems of reflection, correlated unobservables, and endogenous group membership. We overcome these identification issues in the context of...
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quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as … suggest that the effects of child care vary systematically across the earnings distribution, that the mean impact misses a lot … middle and upper-class children are unlikely to exceed the costs. To help understand the differential effects on earnings, we …
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quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as … suggest that the effects of child care vary systematically across the earnings distribution, that the mean impact misses a lot … middle and upper-class children are unlikely to exceed the costs. To help understand the differential effects on earnings, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010595386
inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early 1990s, is … to some extent driven by the fact that the large baby boom cohorts are approaching the peak of the age-earnings profile …
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We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax returns data. We derive a measure of economic income from taxable gross income as reported in the tax returns. Thanks to complete sampling, we can deliver a very precise description...
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