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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

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The lot of the unemployed : a time use perspective

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...

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Job search and unemployment insurance : new evidence from time use data

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The main findings are: 1) the average unemployed worker in the U.S. devotes about 41 minutes to job search on weekdays, which is...

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Estimating the effects of length of exposure to a training program : the case of job corps

Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso (contributor); … - 2007

Most of the literature on the evaluation of training programs focuses on the effect of participation on a particular outcome (e.g. earnings). The "treatment" is generally represented by a binary variable equal to one if participation in the program occurs, and equal to zero if no participation...

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A contribution to the empirics of reservation wages

Krueger, Alan B.; Müller, Andreas - 2014

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high‐frequency longitudinal data. Using data from our survey of unemployed workers in New Jersey, where workers were interviewed each week for up to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported...

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Bounds on average and quantile treatment effects of job corps training on wages

Blanco, German; Flores, Carlos; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2011

We assess the effectiveness of Job Corps (JC), the largest job training program targeting disadvantaged youth in the United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile treatment effects of the program on wages. Our preferred estimates point toward convincing...

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Interpreting degree effects in the returns to education

Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Light, Audrey - 2009

Researchers often identify degree effects by including degree attainment (D) and years of schooling (S) in a wage model, yet the source of independent variation in these measures is not well understood. We argue that S is negatively correlated with ability among degree-holders because the most...

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