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Sibling health, schooling and longer-term developmental outcomes

Ryan, Chris; Zhu, Anna - 2016

We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the detrimental, long-term developmental consequences of having an ill or disabled sibling. Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we employ a Regression...

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The effects of stepwise minimum legal drinking age legislation on mortality : evidence from Germany

Kamalow, Raffael; Siedler, Thomas - 2019

This study investigates the short-term mortality effects of two age-based restrictions on legal access to alcohol in … Germany. We exploit sharp differences in legal access to alcohol at 16 and 18 years by implementing a regression discontinuity …", whereas legal access to alcohol plays a marginal role at most. Overall, our results indicate that a stepwise introduction to …

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Born to lead? : the effect of birth order on non-cognitive abilities

Black, Sandra E.; Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn - 2017

We study the effect of birth order on personality traits among men using population data on enlistment records and occupations for Sweden. We find that earlier born men are more emotionally stable, persistent, socially outgoing, willing to assume responsibility, and able to take initiative than...

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Female labor force participation in Turkey : a synthetic cohort (panel) analysis, 1988-2013

Tunali, İnsan; Kirdar, Murat G.; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2019

We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in Turkey using a synthetic panel approach. In our decomposition of age, year, and cohort effects, we use three APC models that have received close scrutiny of the demography community. We rely on...

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Identifying age penalty in women's wages : new method and evidence from Germany 1984-2014

Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Staveren, Irene van - 2018

Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort and age effects in adjusted gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from...

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Estimating causal effects of alcohol access and use on a broad set of risky behaviors : regression discontinuity evidence

Fletcher, Jason - 2018

's 21st birthday, when alcohol consumption becomes legal. The policy implications from these findings have focused on the … need to reduce drinking among young people, potentially by enforcing stricter alcohol controls. However, mortality and … of legal access to alcohol at age 21. This paper uses the Add Health data combined with a regression discontinuity …

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A new estimator of search duration and its application to the marriage market

Jelnov, Pavel - 2018

It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common interpretation of this fact is that marital search takes longer when the pool of potential mates is more unequal. This paper challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric...

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Disaggregate matching functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

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Determinants of profit sharing in the Finnish corporate sector

Arranz-Aperte, Laura (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The impact of employment protection mandates on demographic temporary employment patterns : international microeconomic evidence

Kahn, Lawrence M. (contributor) - 2005

Using 1994-98 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) microdata, this paper investigates the impact of employment protection laws on the incidence of temporary employment by demographic group. More stringent employment protection for regular jobs is predicted to increase the relative...

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