by changes in compulsory schooling laws in both the United States and Norway to estimate the effect in two very different … childbearing in both the United States and Norway, and these results are quite robust to various specification checks. Somewhat …

separately identifying the role of peers. This paper uses data on the population of Norway and idiosyncratic variation in cohort …

The objective of this study is to estimate the effects of competition for both Medicare and HMO patients on the quality … infarction (reported by the state of California). Measures of competition are constructed for each hospital and payer type. The … competition measures are formulated to mitigate the possibility of endogeneity bias. The study finds that increases in the degree …

We study two interventions for underemployed youth across five Ethiopian sites: a $300 grant to spur self …

In this paper, we exploit a 'natural experiment' associated with human reproduction to identify the effect of teen … with which to contrast teenage mothers. Exploiting this natural experiment, we devise an Instrumental Variables (IV … of Youth, 1979 (NLSY79). Our major finding is that many of the negative consequences of not delaying childbearing until …

There is growing concern that improving the academic skills of disadvantaged youth is too difficult and costly, so … school success: "mismatch" between what schools deliver and the needs of disadvantaged youth who have fallen behind in their … provides disadvantaged youth with non-academic supports that try to teach youth social-cognitive skills based on the principles …

experiment that arises from a sharp discontinuity in DI policy in Norway, we provide transparent and credible identification of …

exploring job-entry decisions in a natural field experiment where we randomized nearly 7,000 interested job-seekers into … different compensation regimes. By varying the role that individual competition plays in setting the wage, we are able to … explore whether competition, by itself, can cause differential job entry. The data highlight the power of the compensation …