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The labour supply effect of education maintenance allowance and its implications for parental altruism
Holford, Angus - 2015
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the …
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Preferences and perceptions in provision and maintenance public goods
Gächter, Simon; Kölle, Felix; Quercia, Simone - 2022
and needs to be provided; in Maintenance problems, the public good already exists and needs to be maintained. In five lab …-equivalent versions of these public good problems. We find fewer conditional cooperators and more free riders in Maintenance than …, Maintenance and Provision are different social dilemmas that require separate behavioral analyses. Despite some inconsistencies, a …
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Parenthood and risk preferences
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015
This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
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Shaking things up : on the stability of risk and time preferences
Beine, Michel; Charness, Gary; Dupuy, Arnaud; Joxhe, … - 2020
We conduct a survey and incentivized lab-in-the-field experimental tasks in Tirana, Albania. While the original purpose of our study was to examine whether and how deep parameters such as time and risk preferences affect the intention to migrate, our study was transformed into a natural...
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Unscheduled school closings and student performance
Marcotte, Dave E. (contributor);  … - 2007
Do students perform better on statewide assessments in years in which they have more school days to prepare? We explore this question using data on math and reading assessments taken by students in the 3rd, 5th and 8th grades since 1994 in Maryland. Our identification strategy is rooted in the...
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Flexible working and couples' coordination of time schedules
Bryan, Mark L.; Sevilla, Almudena - 2014
Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time schedules in the UK. We consider three distinct dimensions of flexible working: flexibility of daily...
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Voter reaction to government incompetence and corruption related to the 1999 earthquakes in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next...
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School schedule and the gender pay gap
Duchini, Emma; Effenterre, Clémentine van - 2020
We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents. Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In 2013, a reform reallocated some classes to Wednesday mornings. Exploiting variations in the...
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Longer school schedules and early reading skills : effects from a full-day school reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Vienne, Veronica - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile. In a setting where families choose schools, we identify the causal effect of longer schedules with instrumental variables, using the local availability of full-day schools as...
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Work schedules
DeVaro, Jed - 2024
In a new model of work schedules, employers choose the number of working hours and either dictate the exact hours to be worked or delegate that decision to workers via flextime. Workers' preferences over schedules influence their productivities. An inverted-U-shaped hours-output profile arises;...
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