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study, we focus on the reliability of students’ earnings expectations. To what extent is observed log earnings expectations …
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-school students in both a square lattice and a heterogeneous network. We find that female students have a higher probability of … cooperation than male students. …
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-regulation among sixth and seventh-grade students in primary schools in North Macedonia (about 33,000 students across 350 schools). The … results of this interventions are mixed. Exposed students report improvements in self-regulation, in particular the … perseverance-of-effort facet of grit, relative to students in a control condition. Impacts on students are larger when both …
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foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is … potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically different than non …-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory experiments with student samples …
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Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess …-effects estimation. Students' own and peer GPAs and their attitudes towards economics have the largest effects on value-added scores. We …
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Graduating from a school during a time of adverse economic conditions has a persistent, harmful effect on workers' subsequent employment opportunities. An analysis of panel data from OECD countries during the 1960-2010 periods reveals that a worker who experiences a one-percentage-point higher...
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This paper tests for the long-term and short-term relationships between fertility and relative cohort size for the United States using the annual time series data between 1913 and 2001. An error correction model, imbedded with the cointegration theory, is coupled with the general impulse...
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During the 1980s and 1990s, the Netherlands experienced a strong increase in the labour force participation of women. This study investigates the increase of participation over the successive generations of women, and produces an educated guess for future participation. For this purpose, we...
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This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Splines have the advantage that they do not require a priori assumptions about the form of the curve. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)...
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Between mid-1939 and mid-1943 almost 2.2 million additional women were recruited into Britain's essential war industries. These consisted, predominantly, of young women recruited into metal and chemical industries. Much of the increased labour supply was achieved through government directed...
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