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Matching with a handicap : the case of smoking in the marriage market

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2010

We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of potential mates, and over their socioeconomic quality. Spousal smoking is bad for non-smokers, but it is neutral for smokers, while individuals always prefer high socioeconomic...

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Genes, education, and labor market outcomes : evidence from the health and retirement study

Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2016

Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a genetic score variable, are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We...

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Girls, boys, and high achievers

Cools, Angela; Fernández, Raquel; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2019

This paper studies the effect of exposure to female and male "high-achievers" in high school on the long-run educational outcomes of their peers. Using data from a recent cohort of students in the United States, we identify a causal effect by exploiting quasi-random variation in the exposure of...

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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe

Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012

mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …

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Books are forever: Early life conditions, education and lifetime income

Brunello, Giorgio; Weber, Guglielmo; Weiss, Christoph T. - 2012

In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals …

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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...

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Migration as an adjustment mechanism in the crisis? : a comparison of Europe and the United States

Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2014

new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … in Europe. Indeed, in contrast to the pre-crisis situation and the findings of previous empirical studies, there is … tentative evidence that the migration response to the crisis has been considerable in Europe, in contrast to the United States …

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Compulsory schooling laws and formation of beliefs : education, religion and superstition

Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2014

We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...

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Education policies and migration across European countries

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2016

This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...

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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels

Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022

the state/NUTS-1 and district level in both the United States and Europe. We find that Indian workers react to asymmetric …

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