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We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger work is individualized enough that firms can choose to condition pay on it, but significant externalities in messenger behavior nonetheless give their on-the-job interactions the...
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In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of worker investment in safety. Standard theory assumes that injury risk … individual safety investments that reduce the risk of injury. This results in a negative association between individual injury … safety. In line with our model predictions, we find a significant positive compensating wage differential (CWD) for nonfatal …
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distance to school and their safety when commuting to school. In Zambia, we studied the impact of providing a bicycle to a …
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We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media …
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of the child does not matter, but that children with fewer siblings, and firstborn children, are more strongly influenced …
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While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education and earnings, the evidence on the effects of birth order on IQ is decidedly mixed. This paper uses a large dataset on the population of Norway that allows us to precisely measure birth...
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How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of educational attainment and future labor market success; as a result, understanding the determinants of cognitive skills can lead to a better understanding of children's long run...
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Testing the tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family … size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, this paper examines the effect of family size on child educational … attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth …
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conditional cash transfer program. A large literature has shown significant mean impacts on schooling, health, and child labor …
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