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We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects the estimated VSL. Our findings indicate that a reasonable average cost...
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We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased)...
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Our research addresses fundamental long - standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its … applying panel data, a new and more accurate fatality risk measure, and systematic selection of panel estimator in our research …
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This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … evaluation of current policies. Our model clarifies a series of puzzles from the literature on the "value of life" and on …
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In this study, we describe the postsecondary transitions of students taking CTE courses in high school using administrative data on one cohort of high school students from Washington State. Our findings indicate that CTE students are less likely to enroll in college overall, especially four-year...
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Whilst in the US there is a growing debate about the effectiveness of remedial university courses, this issue is less … questioned in the UK. Using a regression discontinuity approach and data from a large School of a post-1992 UK university, we … Seltzer (2009), which is based on data from a pre-1992 UK university. Taken together, these results may call for a review of …
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This paper presents the first estimates of the causal effect of facilities for prenatal sex diagnosis on the sex ratio at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births. Treated births are those that occur after prenatal sex...
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Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and the gradual increase in the supply of air bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the...
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This paper analyzes the interaction between migration of high-skilled labor and publicly financed investment. We develop a theoretical model with multiple, ex ante identical jurisdictions where individuals decide on education and subsequent emigration. Migration decisions are based on...
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Given the intensive and ideologically charged debate over the use of private contractors for publicly funded services, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of economic efficiency. Starting out from different...
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