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Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes
Persico, Claudia - 2020
Although industrial plants, known as Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) sites, exist in every major city of the United States releasing billions of pounds of toxic substances annually, there is little evidence about how these pollutants might harm child development and children's long run outcomes....
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Gender Differences in Political Career Progression : Evidence from U.S. Elections
Brown, Ryan - 2019
This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863788
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Do Parents' Social Skills Influence Their Children's Sociability?
Okumura, Tsunao - 2010
gender, but remains statistically significant (especially between fathers and sons), even after controlling for a variety of …
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Promotion Signals, Age and Education
Bognanno, Michael L. - 2012
This paper examines whether more informative job promotions carry larger wage increases. In job assignment models with asymmetric information, unexpected promotions send a signal to the external labor market to revise upward their assessment of a worker's ability. The employing firm must then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108233
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Children of War : The Long-Run Effects of Large-Scale Physical Destruction and Warfare on Children
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2009
During World War II, more than one-half million tons of bombs were dropped in aerial raids on German cities, destroying about one-third of the total housing stock nationwide. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of large-scale physical destruction on the educational...
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Does the Girl Next Door Affect Your Academic Outcomes and Career Choices?
Goulas, Sofoklis - 2018
Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we … examine how the gender of classmates and neighbors affects a variety of high school outcomes and choice of university major … unobserved characteristics of schools and neighborhoods that might be correlated with peer gender composition, we exploit within …
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Additional Career Assistance and Educational Outcomes for Students in Lower Track Secondary Schools
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2017
Based on local policy variation, this paper estimates the causal effect of additional career assistance on educational outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous...
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Education and Early Career Outcomes of Second-Generation Immigrants in France
Belzil, Christian; Poinas, François - 2021
We estimate a flexible dynamic model of education choices and early career employment outcomes of the French population. Individuals are allowed to choose between 4 options: continue to the next grade, accept a permanent contract, accept a temporary contract, or withdraw from the labor force (a...
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Working Hours Flexibility and Older Workers' Labor Supply
Gielen, Anne C. - 2007
This paper studies the presence of hours constraints on the UK labor market and its effect on older workers labor supply, both at the extensive and the intensive margin. Using panel data for the period 1991-2004, the results from a competing risks model show that over-employed male workers can...
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Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
on the probability of employment in many, though not all, occupations in ways that differ by gender. Consequently, men … gender wage gap that is unexplained …
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