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Reminder Design and Childhood Vaccination Coverage
Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan; Wüst, Miriam - 2023
A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and … three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we document the effects of reminders for childhood vaccination … recommended vaccination age. Digital and postal reminders are equally effective. Prospective reminders increase timely …
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Taxes, cigarette consumption and smoking intensity
Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2005
This paper analyses the compensatory behavior of smokers. Exploiting data on cotinine concentration a metabolite of nicotine measured in a large population of smokers over time, we show that smokers compensate tax hikes by extracting more nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important...
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Care or cash? The effect of child care subsidies on student performance
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Loken, Katrine V.; … - 2012
Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...
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A Golden Opportunity: The Gold Rush, Entrepreneurship and Culture
Stuetzer, Michael; Brodeur, Abel; Obschonka, Martin; … - 2021
We study the origins of entrepreneurship (culture) in the United States. For the analysis we make use of a quasi-natural experiment – the gold rush in the second part of the 19th century. We argue that the presence of gold attracted individuals with entrepreneurial personality traits. Due to a...
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The Alabaster Ceiling: The Gender Legacy of the Papal States
Harka, Elona; Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2021
We investigate the legacy of the former Papal States on modern female condition by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across the border between the former Papal States and the former Grand Duchy of Tuscany. While in the Papal States gender inequality was particularly...
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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959772
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The Stability of Mixed Income Neighborhoods in America
Krupka, Douglas J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Whether people of differing types can live happily together is one of the most important social and political questions concerning urban areas. From a variety of theoretical perspectives, such mixing seems extremely unlikely. While the theoretical result seems well supported in the context of...
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Do parents drink their children's welfare? A joint analysis of intra-household allocation of time
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; … - 2013
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether excessive parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring...
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Social learning and health insurance enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme
Liu, Hong; Sun, Qi; Zhao, Zhong - 2013
This paper examines the role of social learning in household enrollment decisions for the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find that the social network...
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