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this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national … possible selective fertility based on labor market conditions. We find that downturns are beneficial; for example, a one …
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. Another ("incentives") was offered substantial merit-scholarships for solid, but not necessarily top, first year grades. A … students offered both services and incentives than for those offered services alone. No program had an effect on men's grades … of the fact that incentives were given in the first year only. The results suggest that the study skills acquired in …
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Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
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incentives to high school seniors in an experimental demonstration program. As a theoretical matter, such incentives may be … outcomes in an effort to determine how students responded to incentives. These results show students took more tests and were …
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suggest that a combination of services and incentives is more promising than either alone …
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offering substantial cash incentives in two demonstration programs. As a theoretical matter, cash incentives may be helpful if …
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This paper introduces an instrumental variables estimator for the effect of a binary treatment on the quantiles of potential outcomes. The quantile treatment effects (QTE) estimator accommodates exogenous covariates and reduces to quantile regression as a special case when treatment status is...
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efforts to go from local average treatment effects (LATE) to population average treatment effects are inherently speculative … tenuous. Another interesting finding is that for the sample of teen mothers, LATE is essentially equal to the population …
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Although theoretical models of labor supply and the family are well developed, there are few credible estimates of key empirical relationships in the work-family nexus. This study uses a new instrumental variable, the sex composition of the first two births in families with at least two...
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