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: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …
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Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs …
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from Italy and the Netherlands. It presents a two-period gametheoretical model where the child has to decide whether to …. We find strong positive effects of the child income share on the saving rate in Italy, where we calculate saving as the … also find some significant effects of the child income share on household saving rate in the Netherlands, where saving is …
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This paper analyzes retirement saving and portfolio choice in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands. While … worth and gross wealth should be highest in Italy, that Dutch households should hold the lowest wealth levels at retirement …
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We explore umpires' racial/ethnic preferences in the evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other factors, strikes are more likely to be called if the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only...
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using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location … and time fixed effects, weather factors, the pre-game point spread, and the size of the local viewing audience, we find …
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This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...
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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
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