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This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA project to connect administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative...
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We exploit the variation in the admissions cutoffs across colleges of a leading Indian university in a regression discontinuity framework to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on: cognitive attainment, behavioral preferences, and Big Five personality. We find that...
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, time, and risk preferences with rich information on child behavior and family environment to study whether children …'s economic preferences predict their behavior. Results from standard regression specifications demonstrate the predictive power … preferences for behavior attenuates. We discuss implications of our findings for research on the formation of children …
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We study the effects of informal social interactions on academic achievement and behavior using idiosyncratic variation …
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This paper reviews experimental studies that investigate the effects of communication on behavior in organizational …
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We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic effects on the daily incidence of COVID-19 and on population mobility patterns across 135 countries....
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Disease spread is in part a function of individual behavior. We examine the factors predicting individual behavior … find evidence that region, gender and beliefs predict behavior. Broadly, our findings align with typical relationships … unevenly distributed across socio-demographic groups in ways that affect behavior and thus potentially the spread of illness …
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in SED impact behavior, however, we find stark differences by gender, observing important changes in externalizing … behavior and behavioral control problems among males only as opposed to changes in internalizing behavior among females only …
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consequences for long-term behavior and labor market outlook. Using novel, longitudinal, microdata on cohorts of East German …, in terms of their expressions of externalizing behavior (e.g., physical fighting) and behavioral control problems (i ….e., substance abuse), as well as internalizing behavior (i.e., mental health) and in their (labor-market) optimism and expectations …
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for girls with abnormal externalizing behavior are not significantly different from those of boys with the same behavioral …
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