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Visual Tools and Narratives : New Ways to Improve Financial Literacy
Lusardi, Annamaria - 2015
We developed and experimentally evaluated four novel educational programs delivered online: an informational brochure, a visual interactive tool, a written narrative, and a video narrative. The programs were designed to inform people about risk diversification, an essential concept for financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033352
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The Economics of Online Postsecondary Education : Moocs, Nonselective Education, and Highly Selective Education
Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2015
I consider how online postsecondary education, including massive open online courses (MOOCs), might fit into economically sustainable models of postsecondary education. I contrast nonselective postsecondary education (NSPE)in which institutions sell fairly standardized educational services in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034361
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Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability
Schick, Andreas - 2010
Taller workers receive a substantial wage premium. Studies extending back to the middle of the last century attribute the premium to non-cognitive abilities, which are associated with stature and rewarded in the labor market. More recent research argues that cognitive abilities explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135412
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The "Austerity Myth" : Gain Without Pain?
Perotti, Roberto - 2011
Eurozone countries today) and two - Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency.All four episodes were associated with an … occurred because the sterling coincidentally appreciated. In Finland and Sweden the currency experienced an extremely large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118837
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Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden
Laun, Lisa - 2011
Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We use three different measures of population health: (1) the mortality … Statistics Sweden's Survey on Living Conditions (ULF, 1975-2005); (3) the utilization of health care from the inpatient register …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125163
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The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
Carlsson, Magnus - 2012
preparation for military service in Sweden. Both age at test date and number of days spent in school vary randomly across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099118
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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence
Sala, Luca - 2012
price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099824
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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime : An Intergenerational Perspective
Meghir, Costas - 2012
originally thought. We provide evidence on the intergenerational impact of policy by showing that educational reform in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104990
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Education and Mortality : Evidence from a Social Experiment
Meghir, Costas - 2012
We examine the effects of a major Swedish educational reform, that increased the years of compulsory schooling, on mortality and health. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the...
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Education, Cognition and Health : Evidence from a Social Experiment
Meghir, Costas - 2013
In this paper we examine how an education policy intervention - the introduction of a comprehensive school in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082763