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Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing
Chatterji, Pinka - 2011
employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First … symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared … whole, we find only weak evidence that maternal work hours are associated with maternal health, and no evidence that …
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Does Indivisible Labor Explain the Difference between Micro and Macro Elasticities? A Meta-Analysis of Extensive Margin Elasticities
Chetty, Raj - 2012
Macroeconomic calibrations imply much larger labor supply elasticities than microeconometric studies. One prominent explanation for this divergence is that indivisible labor generates extensive margin responses that are not captured in micro studies of hours choices. We evaluate whether existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115279
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Meta-Analysis for Medical Decisions
Manski, Charles F. - 2019
Statisticians have proposed meta-analysis to combine the findings of multiple studies of health risks or treatment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893600
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Can War Foster Cooperation?
Bauer, Michal - 2018
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...
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What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations
Card, David - 2015
We summarize the estimates from over 200 recent studies of active labor market programs. We classify the estimates by type of program and participant group, and distinguish between three different post-program time horizons. Using regression models for the estimated program effect (for studies...
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Does Mass Deworming Affect Child Nutrition? Meta-Analysis, Cost-Effectiveness, and Statistical Power
Croke, Kevin - 2016
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Climate and Conflict
Burke, Marshall - 2014
Until recently, neither climate nor conflict have been core areas of inquiry within economics, but there has been an explosion of research on both topics in the past decade, with a particularly large body of research emerging at their intersection. In this review, we survey this literature on...
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The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence from 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, Roland G. - 2016
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
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The Impressive Effects of Tutoring on Prek-12 Learning : A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence
Nickow, Andre; Oreopoulos, Philip; Quan, Vincent - 2022
Tutoring—defined here as one-on-one or small-group instructional programming by teachers, paraprofessionals, volunteers, or parents—is one of the most versatile and potentially transformative educational tools in use today. Within the past decade, dozens of preK-12 tutoring experiments have...
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A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Common Currencies on International Trade
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2021
Thirty-four recent studies have investigated the effect of currency union on trade, resulting in 754 point estimates of the effect. This paper is a quantitative attempt to summarize the current state of debate; meta-analysis is used to combine the disparate estimates. The chief findings are that:...
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