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This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...
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An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that beyond a certain point, the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability may become positive, because as unmarried women begin to hear their biological clock tick,...
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of the UK. The magnitude is inconsistent with exponential time preference, but compatible with quasi …
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time and employment duration (Imbens (1994)), and estimate the model using personnel data from a large Dutch aircraft …
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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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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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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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Several countries are considering extending Daylight Saving Time (DST) in order to conserve energy, and the U.S. will … rely on extrapolations and simulations rather than empirical evidence. This paper, in contrast, examines a quasi-experiment …
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We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...
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This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day-of the-week effect. Overall, we find a 'blue' Sunday...
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