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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...
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Reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion: a discrete choice experiment in the health-care sector
Neumann, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - 2007
A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally greater when the deviation represents a loss than when the...
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School responsiveness to quality rankings: An empirical analysis of secondary education in the Netherlands
Koning, Pierre; van der Wiel, Karen - 2010
This paper analyzes the response of secondary schools to changes in their quality ratings. The current analysis is the first to address the impact of quality scores that have been published by a newspaper (Trouw), rather than public interventions. Our research design exploits the substantial...
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Ranking the schools: How quality information affects school choice in the Netherlands
Koning, Pierre; van der Wiel, Karen - 2010
This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high...
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How do principals assign students to teachers? Finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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Riches to Rags Every Month? : The Fall in Consumption Expenditures Between Paydays
Huffman, David; Barenstein, Matias - 2004
of the UK. The magnitude is inconsistent with exponential time preference, but compatible with quasi …
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Worker Separations in a Nonstationary Corporate Environment
Dohmen, Thomas J.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2000
time and employment duration (Imbens (1994)), and estimate the model using personnel data from a large Dutch aircraft …
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Time to eat: household production under increasing income inequality
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2006
Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating … them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how … income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …
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Time-to-degree and the business cycle
Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2007
fairly large degree of interindividual variance in terms of time-to-degree. This paper investigates individual time …-to-degree in a model where students determine the optimum time-to-degree whilst weighing up the cost against the consumption … levels, and economic growth have a significant impact on individual time-to-degree. These results are consistent with the …
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Birth spacing, fertility selection and child survival: analysis using a correlated hazard model
Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - 2007
If fertility reflects the choice of households, results of their choice (duration between successive births and health of the children) cannot be considered to be randomly determined. While most existing studies of child health tend to overlook the effects of fertility selection on child health,...
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