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The timing of parental job displacement, child development and family adjustment
Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
This paper examines if the effect of parental labor market shocks on child development depends on the age of the child at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit mass layoffs and establishment closures as a source of...
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The political choice of social long term care transfers when family gives time and money
De Donder, Philippe; Leroux, Marie-Louise - 2015
parents have an intrinsic preference for help in time by family members. We first show that low (resp., high) income children … income class may give no family help at all, and its elderly members would be the main beneficiaries of the introduction of … most countries. First, social transfers are dominated by help in time by the family when the intrinsic preference of …
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Did Trump's trade war impact the 2018 election?
Blanchard, Emily J.; Bown, Chad P.; Chor, Davin - 2020
We find that Republican candidates lost support in the 2018 congressional election in counties more exposed to trade retaliation, but saw no commensurate electoral gains from US tariff protection. The electoral losses were driven by retaliatory tariffs on agricultural products, and were only...
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What stayers do? : capital endowments and on-farm transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - 2018
While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926385
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Isolating the "Tech" from EdTech : experimental evidence on computer assisted learning in China
Ma, Yue; Fairlie, Robert W.; Loyalka, Prashant; … - 2020
schoolchildren in rural China. Although we find evidence of positive overall CAL program effects on academic outcomes, when we …
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Social interaction and sickness absence
Lindbeck, Assar (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635259
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Taxing sin goods and subsidizing health care
Cremer, Helmuth; De Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Darío; … - 2008
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Job security and work absence : evidence from a natural experiment
Lindbeck, Assar (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor);  … - 2006
We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates, aggregate absence in these firms fell by 0.2-0.3 days per year. This aggregate net figure hides important...
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Sickness absence and search unemployment
Holmlund, Bertil - 2004
The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears as random shocks to individual utility functions, interacts with individual searchand labor supply decisions and triggers movements across labor force states. The employed...
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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022
This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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