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The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth
Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2010
This paper examines whether participation in religious or other social organizations can help offset the negative effects of growing up in a disadvantaged environment. Using the National Survey of Families and Households, we collect measures of disadvantage as well as parental involvement with...
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Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce
Knudsen, Eric I. - 2010
A growing proportion of the U.S. workforce will have been raised in disadvantaged environments that are associated with relatively high proportions of individuals with diminished cognitive and social skills. A cross-disciplinary examination of research in economics, developmental psychology, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761339
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The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children
Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy’s objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
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The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment
Ghironi, Fabio Pietro - 2007
Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …
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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000
Blau, Francine D. - 2008
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770096
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The Effect of Hospital/Physician Integration on Hospital Choice
Baker, Laurence C. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate how hospital ownership of physicians' practices affects their patients' hospital choices. We match data on the hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries, including the identity of their admitting physician, with data on the identity of the owner of the admitting...
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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality Over Three Decades : A Reassessment
Autor, David H. - 2011
We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy...
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Inequality at Work : The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction
Card, David - 2010
We use a simple theoretical framework and a randomized manipulation of access to information on peers' wages to provide new evidence on the effects of relative pay on individual job satisfaction and job search intentions. A randomly chosen subset of employees of the University of California (UC)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137764
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Beyond GDP? Welfare Across Countries and Time
Jones, Charles I. - 2010
We propose a summary statistic for the economic well-being of people in a country. Our measure incorporates consumption, leisure, mortality, and inequality, first for a narrow set of countries using detailed micro data, and then more broadly using multi-country data sets. While welfare is highly...
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William - 2012
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113154