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due to unequal allocation of the particular resource represented by maternal quality time. OLS regressions show that the … negative birth order effects on various test scores are only slightly diminished when maternal time is included among the … quality time received …
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cannot exist a generally acceptable "optimal" age to sample earnings for IV estimation. The practical example developed in …
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Differences in employment protection across countries appear to be quite persistent over time. One mechanism that could …
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Instruction time varies among schools, subjects, pupils and grades. This variation is positively associated with test … administrative data on delivered and timetabled instruction time in each grade throughout compulsory school for three full cohorts of … Danish children, and find positive marginal hours effects on 9th grade test scores using accumulated time which are twice as …
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math tests, have larger test score gains over time, have fewer absences and disciplinary incidents, are less likely to …
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An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that beyond a certain point, the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability may become positive, because as unmarried women begin to hear their biological clock tick,...
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of the UK. The magnitude is inconsistent with exponential time preference, but compatible with quasi …
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of a foreign subsidiary located just across the time zone line that increases the overlap in working hours with its …. The findings suggest that lower barriers to real-time communication within the multinational corporation play an important …
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the Millennium Cohort Study (UK) and focusing on children aged 7-11 years old. We classify the time spent out of school … data.Results show the beneficial effects on children's behaviour of sports, school-related activities, time with parents … and household chores, while a small detrimental effect of video-screen time is detected. We test the robustness of our …
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This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that positive correlations between education and labour...
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