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In this study, we analyze health effects of a recent education reform in Germany exposing students to increased schooling intensity. The reform shortened the higher secondary education track by one year. As the overall curriculum required for graduation was held constant, this led to an increase...
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Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty … monitoring and accountability, most youth invest the transfer in vocational skills and tools. Second, the economic impacts of the … poor access to credit is a major reason youth cannot start these vocations in the absence of aid. Much of the heterogeneity …
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We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
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This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that...
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