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We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is...
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Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
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on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about … the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …
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We study the GDPR's opt-in requirement in a model with a firm that provides a digital service and consumers who are heterogeneous in their valuations of the firm's service as well as the privacy costs incurred when sharing personal data with the firm. We show that the GDPR boosts demand for the...
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can be reconciled by gender differences in nonpecuniary costs of school attendance, myopia, or perceived returns to … education. The findings suggest that due to these gender differences, economic booms misallocate young men away from school …, entrenching the gender gap in education. …
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We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...
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. We present indicative empirical evidence that gender peer effects in the Norwegian elementary school are conditional upon …
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. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …
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that feature two novel contributions. Unlike other gender peer effects studies, a) we use a rich sample of schools and …
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This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men … derive utility from signaling high ability to female colleagues. The analysis shows that some gender diversity maximizes … behavior of male team members, gender diversity has the biggest effects in young teams, and monetary incentives crowd-out the …
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