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policy introduced in the city of Maastricht in the Netherlands that discriminated access via licensed cannabis shops based on …This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional … grades of local students enrolled at Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that …
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We study the link between parental selection and child criminality. Following the collapse of the communist regime in 1989, the number of births halved in East Germany. These cohorts became markedly more likely to be arrested as they grew up in reunified Germany. This is observed for both...
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We investigate how religious beliefs affected the take up of the birth control pill and impacted women's outcomes using the 1970 liberalization of oral contraceptives in the Netherlands. We first document a massive and immediate drop in fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom...
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We investigate the impact on work absence of a massive reduction in paid sick leave benefits. We exploit a policy … average duration. Overall, the policy did reduce number of days lost to sick leave. For some, however, return to work may have …
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