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Educational Production in East Asia : The Impact of Family Background and Schooling
Woessmann, Ludger - 2003
East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261886
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Observable and Unobservable Household Sharing Rules : Evidence from Young Couples' Pocket Money
Lee, Jungmin - 2004
The leading evidence against the unitary household models is that "who gets what" is significantly dependent upon "who earns how much." However, it is difficult to pin down the causal effect of relative earnings on intra-household resource allocation because households jointly decide both labor...
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Sibling Size and Investment in Children's Education : An Asian Instrument
Lee, Jungmin - 2004
This study consistently estimates the trade-off between child quantity and quality by exploiting exogenous variation in fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the first child's gender. For the sample of South...
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A Structural Empirical Model of Firm Growth, Learning, and Survival
Abbring, Jaap H.; Campbell, Jeffrey R. - 2003
We present a structural model of firm growth, learning, and survival and consider its identification and estimation. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262756
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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part I: Theory
Damm, Anna Piil; Rosholm, Michael - 2003
This paper formulates a partial search model in which unemployed individuals simultaneously search for job and location of residence. Most importantly, we show that, ceteris paribus, a decrease in current place utility increases the transition rate into a new location of residence and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261631
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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part II: Empirical Evidence
Damm, Anna Piil; Rosholm, Michael - 2003
into relocation to another municipality by joint estimation of the duration of the first non-employment spell and time … until relocation. The main estimation results are as follows: First, the hazard rate into first job is increasing in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261632
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Time, money, peers, and parents : some data and theories on teenage behavior
Kooreman, Peter - 2003
In the first part of the paper I analyze a data set on teenage behavior. The data is a sample of high school students in the Netherlands, and contains information on teenage time use, income, expenditures, and subjective measures of well-being and self-esteem. As all students in a sampled class...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261636
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Earnings instability of job stayers and job changers
Leonardi, Marco - 2003
I use the PSID to decompose the rise in wage inequality into a permanent and a transitory component. I consider separately job stayers and job changers. I find that earnings instability (the variance of the transitory component of earnings) increased much more among job changers than among job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261646
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Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data
Sunde, Uwe - 2003
This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261647
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Minimum wage effects on labor market outcomes under search with bargaining
Flinn, Christopher J. - 2003
Building upon a continuous-time model of search with Nash bargaining in a stationary environment, we analyze the effect of changes in minimum wages on labor market outcomes and welfare. While minimum wage increases invariably lead to employment losses in our model, they may be welfare-improving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261648