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Alcohol and Student Performance : Estimating the Effect of Legal Access

Lindo, Jason M. - 2011

We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic performance. We first estimate the effect using an RD design but argue that this approach is not well-suited to the research question in our setting. Our preferred approach instead...

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Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation : Announcement and Implementation Effects

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and explicitly allows for announcement and implementation effects. We explore several mechanisms through which women can respond to the announcement of a reform that increases in-work...

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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform

Blundell, Richard W. - 2013

We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and …. We find important incentive effects on education choice and labor supply, with single mothers having the most elastic … especially for women with more than basic formal education. For those with lower education the welfare programs are shown to have …

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Benefit Generosity and Injury Duration : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Regression Kinks

Hansen, Benjamin - 2017

In this paper, we investigate the effect of benefit generosity on claim duration and temporary benefits paid among temporary disability claims for workers' compensation. While previous studies have focused on natural experiments created by one-time large changes in minimum or maximum weekly...

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