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Does temporary interruption in postsecondary education induce a wage penalty? : evidence from Canada

Fortin, Bernard; Ragued, Safa - 2016

Data from the Youth in Transition Survey reveal that almost 40% of Canadian youth who left post-secondary education in 1999 had returned two years later. This paper investigates the extent to which schooling discontinuities affect post-graduation starting real wages and whether the latter are...

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The effects of climate change in the poorest countries : evidence from the permanent shrinking of Lake Chad

Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman D.; … - 2023

), have been studied relatively less, especially in Africa which remains the most vulnerable continent to CC. We focus on Lake … Chad, which used to be the 11th-largest lake in the world. This African lake the size of El Salvador, Israel, or … Massachusetts slowly shrunk by 90% for exogenous reasons between 1963 and 1990. While water supply decreased, land supply increased …

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Hedonic estimation under very general conditions using experimental and quasi-experimental designs

Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2013

This paper develops a generalized hedonic model in which an exogenous shock to a single product attribute can affect …

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Water tariffs and consumers' inaction

Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco - 2018

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

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EthniCity of leisure : a domains approach to ethnic integration during free time activities

Kamenik, Kristiina; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van - 2016

This paper takes a domains approach to understanding ethnic segregation; ethnic segregation occurs in different ways in different domains (such as the residential neighbourhood, workplaces, leisure, etc.). Where most studies focus on residential segregation, this study focusses on ethnic...

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A wage-efficiency spatial model for US self-employed workers

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016

In this paper, we study self-employment in a theoretical setting derived from wage-efficiency spatial models, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. We develop a spatial model of self-employment in which effort at work and commuting are negatively related, and thus the probability...

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Spatial distribution of US employment in an urban wage-efficiency setting

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016

In this paper, we analyze the spatial distribution of US employment and earnings against an urban wage-efficiency background, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. Using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) for the period 2003-2014, we analyze the spatial distribution of...

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Sleepwalking through school : new evidence on sleep and academic performance

Wang, Kurt; Sabia, Joseph J.; Cesur, Resul - 2016

Policymakers advocating for later school starting times argue that increased sleep duration may generate important schooling benefits. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines the relationship between sleep duration and academic performance, while...

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Secular satiation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2017

Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given good but new goods may be introduced. A social planner will never elect a trajectory with long-run satiation. Instead, he will introduce enough new goods to avoid such a...

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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports

Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children...

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