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No pass no drive : education and allocation of time
Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernández, Marian - 2012
-work at the expense of leisure and work. -- negative incentives ; education ; allocation of time ; dropout ; No Pass No Drive …Do negative incentives or sticks in education improve student outcomes? Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have …
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The short- and longer-term effects of a child labor ban
Piza, Caio; Souza, André Portela; Emerson, Patrick M.; … - 2022
Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...
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Does high school homework increase academic achievement?
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2014
Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which are less accurate than time-diary data. However, most time-diary data sets do not contain outcome...
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Wheeling into school and out of crime : evidence from linking driving licenses to minimum academic requirements
Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian - 2016
preference for driving to stay in school beyond the minimum dropout age. Using Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrest data … our findings are driven by an increase in education rather than incapacitation and that NPND laws are a relatively low … cost policy that generates positive externalities beyond and in addition to the minimum dropout age. …
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Active labor market programs : employment gain or fiscal drain?
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Koettl, Johannes - 2012
This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their main objectives and their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a crisis, and during recovery. We distinguish ALMPs that provide: (i) incentives for retaining...
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Long workweeks and strange hours
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2014
American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting...
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Faces of joblessness : characterising employment barriers to inform policy
Fernández, Rodrigo; Immervoll, Herwig; Pacifico, Daniele; … - 2016
This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent individuals from participating fully in the labour market. The approach is intended to complement existing sources of information that governments use when designing and implementing...
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Maternity leave and paternity leave : evidence on the economic impact of legislative changes in high income countries
Canaan, Serena; Lassen, Anne Sophie; Rosenbaum, Philip; … - 2022
Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market participation, the focus has gradually shifted to the...
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The effects of the Affordable Care Act on labour supply and other uses of time
Bottasso, Anna; Cerruti, Gianluca; Conti, Maurizio; … - 2022
A vast literature studies the behavioural impacts of health care reforms, often coming to controversial conclusions. Here we examine the time allocation effects of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obama Care, focusing on two ACA pillars: Medicaid expansion, which increased access to public...
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Why do temporary workers have higher disability insurance risks than permanent workers?
Koning, Pierre; Muller, Paul; Prudon, Roger - 2022
Workers with fixed-term contracts typically have worse health than workers with permanent contracts. We show that these differences in health translate into a substantially higher (30%) risk of applying for disability insurance (DI) in the Netherlands. Using unique administrative data on health...
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