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We study school choice within the family, analyzing how birth order, gender, innate talent, and family financial … learning and may have a relevant impact on income distribution among family members. …
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Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. To identify the treatment effect, it takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary...
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Chinese labour market. In order to overcome the endogeneity problem of schooling, we consider the siblings structure and the … available public facilities as instrumental variables. Females’ education is negatively affected by siblings (brothers or …
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and logit regression. For each indicator, we estimate, in addition to the usual between-family model, a within-family … model to see whether differences in siblings' outcomes are associated with differences in the siblings' breastfeeding … histories. Principal Findings. Nearly all of the correlations found in the between-family model become statistically …
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affected by family structure, such as the number of siblings and birth order where individuals grow up. After controlling for … elder sisters did not affect the preference. (3) The number of younger siblings did not affect a male’s preference for … redistribution regardless of the sibling’s sex. The number of younger brothers did not affect a female’s preference, whereas the …
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We evaluate the impact of a mandatory quota of workers with disabilities using a sharp regression discontinuity design. We use data from a panel of Spanish firms where there is a mandatory quota of 2 per cent for firms with 50 or more workers. Non-parametric estimations show that strictly beyond...
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This study employs a regression discontinuity design in order to provide direct evidence on the effects of grades earned in economics principles classes on the decision to major in economics and finds a differential effect for male and female students. Specifically, for female students,...
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While the role of money in policymaking is a central question in political economy research, surprisingly little attention has been given to the rents politicians actually derive from politics. We use both matching and a regression discontinuity design to analyze an original dataset on the...
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This paper estimates the incumbency effects in the legislative elections of 45 states in the US during the period 1968-89. I improve upon the existing measures of incumbency by using a quasi-experimental research design that isolates the effect due to incumbency from other contemporaneous...
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We study incumbency advantage and the electoral returns to pork and patronage over ten legislative periods from 1948 to 1992 for two political parties — the Christian Democrats (DC) and the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) — in Italy’s lower house of representatives, the Chamber of Deputies....
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