Narrow search
Showing 1 - 9 of 9
Cover Image
Where to put the kids? Effects of type of non-parental child care on pre-teen skills and risky behavior
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - 2011
This paper investigates pre-teenage effects of the choice of type of non-parental child care at age three (preschool relative to more informal family day care). We exploit a Danish panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment that generates variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278481
Cover Image
The threat of monitoring job search: A discontinuity design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2010
Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the effect of a notification sent at least 8 months before job search is verified. The threat of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278740
Cover Image
Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Brändle, Tobias - 2015
this paper we present key results from the evaluation of "Perspektive 50plus", a large-scale active labor market program …Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a … use a combination of different evaluation estimators to check the sensitivity of the results to selection, substitution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500313
Cover Image
The effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health
Dalsgaard, Søren; Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Simonsen, Marianne - 2012
We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287616
Cover Image
Where to Put the Kids? Effects of Type of Non-parental Child Care on Pre-teen Skills and Risky Behavior
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates pre-teenage effects of the choice of type of non-parental child care at age three (preschool relative to more informal family day care). We exploit a Danish panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment that generates variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216763
Cover Image
The Threat of Monitoring Job Search: A Discontinuity Design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the effect of a notification sent at least 8 months before job search is verified. The threat of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742953
Cover Image
Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counseled shortly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763741
Cover Image
The Effects of Pharmacological Treatment of ADHD on Children's Health
Dalsgaard, Søren; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, Marianne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775590
Cover Image
Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Brändle, Tobias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
this paper we present key results from the evaluation of "Perspektive 50plus", a large-scale active labor market program …Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a … use a combination of different evaluation estimators to check the sensitivity of the results to selection, substitution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163468