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Mending the Gap : Apparel Export Prices and the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh

Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2022

study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th largest apparel supplier to the United States market in 2020. Recent … studies show the positive impact of apparel exports on female labor force participation in the formal labor market and a range … of household decisions. We extend this literature by estimating the relationship between apparel exports and the male …

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Air Pollution and the Labor Market : Evidence from Wildfire Smoke

Borgschulte, Mark; Molitor, David; Zou, Eric - 2022

We study how air pollution impacts the U.S. labor market by analyzing effects of drifting wildfire smoke that can affect populations far from the fires themselves. We link satellite smoke plume with labor market outcomes to estimate that an additional day of smoke exposure reduces quarterly...

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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Sutter, Matthias - 2011

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...

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Are Young People's Educational Outcomes Linked to Their Sense of Control?

Baron, Juan D. - 2011

This paper analyzes the link between young people's sense (locus) of control over their lives and their investments in education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary school and, conditional on completion, meeting the...

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Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Youths' Successful Transition to Adult Roles

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

We analyze the effect of mothers' and youths' reports of family financial stress and conflict on youths' transitions into adult roles. We find that mothersﾒ reports of financial stresses and borrowing constraints are associated with earlier transitions to inactivity and public assistance,...

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Decline in Social Mobility : Unfulfilled Aspirations Among Egypt's Educated Youth

Binzel, Christine - 2011

This paper studies how the gradual suspension of an employment guarantee scheme for secondary and post-secondary graduates has affected intergenerational mobility across well-educated cohorts in Egypt. The empirical results support suggestive evidence in the Middle East of a decline in social...

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Re-Examining the Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Outcomes in Early Adulthood

Bjerk, David - 2011

This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future criminal activity, there are important differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who...

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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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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey

Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2011

This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the new education policy reduces the probability of marriage...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills During Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Anger, Silke - 2011

personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental … intergenerational transmission effect was found to be relatively small for adolescent children, with correlations between 0.12 and 0 …

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