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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 - 2020
This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299552
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A matter of time? : measuring effects of public schooling expansions on families’ constraints
Gibbs, Chloe R.; Wikle, Jocelyn; Wilson, Riley - 2024
As women increasingly entered the labor force throughout the late 20th century, the challenges of balancing work and family came to the forefront. We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children—through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to...
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Public school access or stay-at-home partner : factors mitigating the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on academic parents
Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchikov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - 2022
find that access to public schools offset the research time loss to a greater extent among mothers of young children …
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A synthetic control method analysis of schools opening and Covid-19 outbreak in Italy
Alfano, Vincenzo; Ercolano, Salvatore; Cicatiello, Lorenzo - 2020
Schools have been very central in the debate about COVID-19. On one hand, there have been many supporters of the … congestion per the public transportation, keeping the schools open favours the spread of the virus. In this article, by the means … of a quantitative analysis that exploits the quasi experimental setting offered by the scattered opening that schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390921
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The optimal design of assisted reproductive technologies policies
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2022
This paper studies the optimal design of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) policies in an economy where individuals differ in their reproductive capacity (or fecundity) and in their wage. We find that the optimal ART policy varies with the postulated social welfare criterion....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262743
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Gender differences in wage expectations : sorting, children, and negotiation styles
Kiessling, Lukas; Pinger, Pia; Seegers, Philipp; … - 2019
This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely resembles actual wage differences, prevails across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064333
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Culture and gender allocation of tasks : source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US immigrants
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199826
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Gender differences in wage expectations and negotiation
Kiessling, Lukas; Pinger, Pia; Seegers, Philipp; … - 2023
This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that resembles actual wage differences, prevails across subgroups,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444193
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International sanctions and emigration
Gutmann, Jerg; Langer, Pascal; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2024
In this first empirical analysis of how sanctions affect international migration, we apply two estimation strategies, a panel difference-in-differences model and an event study approach. Our dataset covers 79,791 dyad-year observations, reflecting migration flows from 157 origin countries to 32...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014452302
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Much ado about nothing? : the role of primary school catchment areas for ethnic school segregation ; evidence from a policy reform
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2013
ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we contribute to this debate by analyzing ethnic segregation before …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223048