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Bellido, Héctor; Molina, José Alberto; Solaz, Anne; … - 2013

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce more costly. We exploit the richness of pre- and post-marital information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79, for the United States, to investigate the relation...

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Diversity and social capital in the US : a tale of conflict, contact or total mistrust?

Belton, Willie James; Huq, Yameen; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2014

In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using U.S. data from 1990, 1997 and 2005. Subsequently we examine the data for evidence of the conflict,...

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Learning and earning : evidence from a randomized evaluation in India

Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - 2014

This paper presents the treatment effects from participating in a subsidized vocational training program targeted at women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data from a randomized field experiment to quantify the 6-...

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Youth unemployment and crime in France

Fougère, Denis (contributor); Kramarz, Francis (contributor) - 2006

In this paper we examine the influence of unemployment on property crimes and on violent crimes in France for the period 1990 to 2000. This analysis is the first extensive study for this country. We construct a regional-level data set (for the 95 départements of metropolitan France) with...

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Birds, birds, birds : co-worker similarity, workplace diversity, and voluntary turnover

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Zwick, Thomas - 2019

We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age, and tenure dimension affects voluntary turnover. Fitting duration models for workers' job-to-job moves that control for workplace fixed effects in a representative sample of large...

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Expected returns to crime and crime location

Braakmann, Nils; Chevalier, Arnaud; Wilson, Tanya - 2022

We provide first evidence that temporal variations in the expected returns to crime affect the location of property crime. Our identification strategy relies on the widely-held perception in the UK that households of South Asian descent store gold jewellery at home. Price movements on the...

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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries

Callan, Tim (contributor); Smeeding, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2008

provide comparable results for seven European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK …

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The Italian job : match rigging, career concerns and media concentration in Serie A

Boeri, Tito (contributor); Severgnini, Battista (contributor) - 2008

This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the determinants of match rigging and use this information in...

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Outside income and moral hazard : the elusive quest for good politicians

Gagliarducci, Stefano (contributor); … - 2008

In most modern democracies elected officials can work in the private sector while appointed in parliament. We show that when the political and market sectors are not mutually exclusive, a trade-off arises between the quality of elected officials and the effort they exert in political life. If...

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Where do the brainy Italians go?

Constant, Amelie (contributor); D'Agosto, Elena (contributor) - 2008

researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US …. Ceteris paribus, both push and pull factors are important. While having a Ph.D. from outside Italy predicts the UK choice …, having extra working experience from outside Italy predicts migration to other EU countries. Those who stay abroad …

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