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Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2019

We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism in Pakistan, bearing responsibility for 16 percent of...

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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being

Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2013

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...

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Does professional development of preschool teachers improve child socio-emotional outcomes?

Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2015

early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve … child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … results show improvements in several subscales of the SDQ scale. However, the intervention proves less beneficial for socially …

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A local community course that raises wellbeing and pro-sociality: evidence from a randomised controlled trial

Krekel, Christian; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Fancourt, Daisy; … - 2021

local communities by means of intervention. Can we teach people to live happier lives, cost-effectively and at scale? We … conducted a randomised controlled trial of a scalable social-psychological intervention rooted in self-determination theory and … limitations and implications for intervention design, as well as implications for the use of wellbeing as an outcome for public …

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How to reduce discrimination? : evidence from a field experiment in amateur soccer

Dur, Robert A. J.; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022

A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together with the Norwegian Football Federation. The...

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What works? : interventions aimed at reducing student dropout in higher education

Ibsen, Kristoffer Holst Kroustrup; Rosholm, Michael - 2024

High student dropout rates are a continuing concern within higher education and have received considerable attention for decades. Despite numerous proposed interventions, it remains unclear which interventions are effective, and what the pivotal active ingredients are. This paper systematically...

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Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); … - 2007

In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...

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Modeling immigrants' language skills

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2007

One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the US from non-English speaking countries other than Mexico are proficient in English, only about 50...

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The fertility effect of catastrophe : US hurricane births

Evans, Richard W. (contributor); Hu, Yingyao (contributor); … - 2007

For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...

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How disasters affect local labor markets : the effects of hurricanes in Florida

Belasen, Ariel R. (contributor); … - 2007

Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) econometric approach that identifies the effects of...

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