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The Impact of Family-Friendly Policies in Denmark and Sweden on Mothers? Career Interruptions Due to Childbirth
Pylkkänen, Elina; Smith, Nina - 2004
We analyze the impact of family-friendly policies on women?s career breaks due to childbirth in Denmark and Sweden. In … childbirth. Sweden and Denmark are culturally similar and share the same type of welfare state ideology, but differ remarkably in … mothers? behaviour compared to Danish women. We explain this finding by the fact that family-friendly policies in Sweden have …
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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden
Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2004
children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … children?s outcomes in terms of educational attainment and earnings using data from Sweden and the United States. Comparing the … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries …
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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States
Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - 2000
between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276293
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468154
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Constitutions and economic development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287652
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Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence
Konrad, Kai A.; Spadaro, Amedeo - 2005
We consider redistributional taxation between people with and without human capital if education is endogenous and if individuals differ in their perceptions about own ability. Those who see their ability as low like redistributive taxation because of the transfers it generates. Those who see...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262201
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Testing for poverty dominance: an application to Canada
Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2008
statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex … inflate significantly one's confidence in ranking poverty. Taking into account SLID's complex sampling design (as has not been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272033
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Who Chooses Which Private Education? Theory and International Evidence
Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele - 2013
Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented students. To assess the empirical relevance of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319547
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Dynamic Treatment Assignment : The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data
Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2004
This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that the duration framework in discrete time provides a fertile ground for effect evaluations. We suggest easy-to-use nonparametric survival function...
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Endogenous Schooling and the Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap
Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 1999
Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there exists a number of recent studies, devoted to estimating the return to education, that have shown that OLS may produce biased estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262298