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Ecosystems and Human Health : The Local Benefits of Forest Cover in Indonesia
Garg, Teevrat - 2019
This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is … effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial incidence. Falsification tests reveal that the effect is specific … to malaria, with forest cover having no discernible effect on other diseases with a disease ecology different from that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860523
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On the Relevance and Composition of Gifts within the Firm : Evidence from Field Experiments
Shearer, Bruce - 2009
We investigate the economic relevance and the composition of gifts within a firm where output is contractible. We develop a structural econometric model that identifies workers' optimal reaction to monetary gifts received from their employer. We estimate the model using data from two separate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157254
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The Roots of Inequality : Estimating Inequality of Opportunity from Regression Trees and Forests
Brunori, Paolo; Hufe, Paul; Mahler, Daniel - 2021
In this paper we propose the use of machine learning methods to estimate inequality of opportunity. We illustrate how our proposed methods—conditional inference regression trees and forests—represent a substantial improvement over existing estimation approaches. First, they reduce the risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213350
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The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth : Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions
Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011
We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129935
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Equality of Opportunity and the Distribution of Long-Run Income in Sweden
Bjorklund, Anders - 2011
before adulthood. We address the question: in Sweden, given its present constellation of social policies and institutions, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130461
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The Role of Mothers and Fathers in Providing Skills : Evidence from Parental Deaths
Adda, Jerome - 2011
This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as on labor market outcomes. We exploit a large administrative data set covering many Swedish cohorts. We develop new estimation methods to tackle the potential endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131421
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Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited : It's Probably Who You are, Not Who You Marry!
Nekby, Lena - 2010
influence who we marry and our labor market outcomes. This study uses panel data on immigrants and their spouses in Sweden to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135828
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Foreign Acquisitions, Domestic Multinationals, and R&D
Bandick, Roger - 2010
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and non-multinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136703
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Stimulating Local Public Employment : Do General Grants Work?
Lundqvist, Heléne - 2010
The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists' minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138257
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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime : An Intergenerational Perspective
Meghir, Costas - 2011
implementation across Sweden. We first show that the reform reduced crime rates for the generation directly affected by the reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117844