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Chevalier, Arnaud; Gibbons, Steve; Thorpe, Andy; Snell, … - 2007

the expected costs to studying. Among high school pupils, we find that pupils with a more positive view of their academic …

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Urban density and pupil attainment

Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2007

We explore the association between urban density and pupil attainment using three cohorts of pupils in schooling in … environments disadvantage pupils, but because the most disadvantaged pupils with low average attainments attend the most urbanised … schools. To control for this, we exploit changes in urban density faced by pupils during compulsory transition from Primary to …

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The causal effect of education on wages revisited

Dickson, Matt - 2009

This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age. Each instrument estimates a 'local average treatment...

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Alcohol and student performance: Estimating the effect of legal access

Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2011

We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic performance. We first estimate the effect using an RD design but argue that this approach is not well-suited to the research question in our setting. Our preferred approach instead...

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Reducing underage alcohol and tobacco use: Evidence from the introduction of vertical identification cards

Bellou, Andriana; Bhatt, Rachana - 2012

From 1994-2009, forty-three states changed the design of their driver's license/state identification cards in an effort to reduce underage access to and consumption of alcohol and tobacco. In these states, individuals under the age of 21 are issued licenses that are vertically oriented, whereas...

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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...

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Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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The impact of union dissolution on moving distances and destinations in the UK

Feijten, Peteke; van Ham, Maarten - 2011

The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...

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Work hours constraints and health

Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...

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