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Fair and Efficient Taxation Under Partial Control : Theory and Evidence

Ooghe, Erwin - 2010

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. Such fairness considerations have been introduced in political economy and optimal income tax models with a...

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Why Children of College Graduates Outperform Their Schoolmates : A Study of Cousins and Adoptees

Haegeland, Torbjörn - 2010

Massive cross-sectional evidence exists indicating that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates. However, evidence for causal interpretation of this association is weak. We examine a causal relationship using two approaches for identification within the same data: cousins...

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A Flying Start? Long Term Consequences of Maternal Time Investments in Children During Their First Year of Life

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2010

We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by … exploiting a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway. The reform increased maternal leave on average by 4 … months and family income was unaffected. The increased time with the child led to a 2.7 percentage points decline in high …

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The Timing of Parental Income and Child Outcomes : The Role of Permanent and Transitory Shocks

Tominey, Emma - 2010

How do shocks to parental income drive adolescent human capital, including years of schooling, high school dropout, university attendance, IQ and health? A structural model decomposes household shocks into permanent and transitory components, then the effect of shocks at age 1-16 is estimated...

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Scarring Effects of Unemployment

Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2011

literature. The negative effects decrease over time. Using the bounding approach proposed by Rosenbaum (2002) to analyse the …

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Educating Children of Immigrants : Closing the Gap in Norwegian Schools

Bratsberg, Bernt - 2011

and second generation non- OECD immigrants in Norway. We show that children of immigrants, and particularly those born … outside Norway, are much more likely to leave school early than native children. Importantly, this gap shrunk sharply over the …

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Classroom Grade Composition and Pupil Achievement

Leuven, Edwin - 2011

This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils in single grade classrooms on high stake central exit tests and teacher set...

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