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We exploit the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937 to identify the causal impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on later life well-being and productivity in the United States. Using census data from 1980-2000, we find that cohorts born after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases...
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The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...
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In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses...
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varies considerably across hospitals and that the prescribing behavior does affect the probability that a given child is … treated. Results show that children diagnosed with ADHD in pharmacological treatment have fewer hospital contacts if treated … and that treatment to some extent protects against criminal behavior. …
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under which youth are assigned to behavioral treatment programs. The administrative data allow for a rich set of controls … for observed family- and youth-specific heterogeneity. In addition, the treatment assignment rules create discontinuous … thresholds among youth who are deemed eligible or not eligible for treatment, rules which the study exploits empirically to …
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This paper measures the value of functional capacity improvement from electronic pain treatment among a sample of Dutch … compared with administrative data of healthy workers to calibrate the treatment?s net present value of capacity improvement … treatment. The value of advanced improvement, when on-the-job learning capacity is recovered, amounts to 150,000 Dutch guilders …
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We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...
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We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment...
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-national inequality databases are now available. These databases differ considerably in purpose, coverage, data sources, inclusion and … introduces, is devoted to an assessment of the merits and shortcomings of eight such databases. Five of these sets are microdata …). Although there is much agreement across these databases, there is also a non-trivial share of country/year cells for which …
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In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...
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