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Great expectations and hard times : the (nontrivial) impact of education on domestic terrorism

Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012

This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …

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Measurement error in education and growth regressions

Portela, Miguel (contributor); Alessie, Rob (contributor); … - 2006

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

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Education and mental health : causal effects and intra-family spillovers

Özer, Mustafa; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2024

is limited. We analyze the impact of education on mental health using survey data on self-reported health of Turkish … women. To deal with the potential endogeneity, we rely on a natural experiment: an increase in the compulsory education from … 5 to 8 years in 1997. The results suggest that education has a favorable effect on mental health, physical health, and …

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Liberation technology : mobile phones and political mobilization in Africa

Manacorda, Marco; Tesei, Andrea - 2016 - This version: March 2016

Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with georeferenced data from multiple sources on the...

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The impact of wage-setting institutions on the incidence of public employment in the OECD : 1960 - 98

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2002

Using data on 17 OECD countries for 1960-98, this paper studies the impact of unions on public employment incidence, using macrodata and microdata. Macrodata show that greater coverage by centralized collective bargaining institutions raises the public employment share, controlling for country...

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Subsidizing health-conscious behavior now or later

Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila; Schwager, Robert - 2016

In a model where consumers have quasi-hyperbolic preferences, we compare immediate subsidies paid for health-conscious consumption and future subsidies rewarding good health outcome. We characterize the subsidy rates which implement the unbiased choice. These rates differ because of two...

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Sibling spillovers

Black, Sandra E.; Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Figlio, … - 2017

It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection problems. We make use of a novel identification strategy and unique data in order to gain some purchase on this problem. We employ data from the universe of children born in...

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Individual investments in education and health : policy responses and interactions

Carbone, Jared C.; Kverndokk, Snorre - 2016

education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … education would require large imperfections in these markets to be more welfare improving than distributional policies. …

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The usual suspects : does risk tolerance, altruism, and health predict the response to COVID-19?

Sheth, Ketki; Wright, Greg C. - 2020

Using a registered pre-analysis plan, we survey college students during California'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 order....

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Birthweight and academic achievement in childhood

Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2014

for the time-invariant variables such as race and maternal education. This would not be feasible with the usual mother …

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