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Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations

Kleven, Henrik - 2019

This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...

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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet

Akerman, Anders - 2015

Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … adoption of broadband internet in firms. Our results suggest that broadband internet improves (worsens) the labor outcomes and … internet. We find suggestive evidence that broadband adoption in firms complements skilled workers in executing nonroutine …

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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus

Stock, James H. - 2020

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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Answering the Queen : Machine Learning and Financial Crises

Fouliard, Jeremy - 2020

Financial crises cause economic, social and political havoc. Macroprudential policies are gaining traction but are still severely under-researched compared to monetary policy and fiscal policy. We use the general framework of sequential predictions also called online machine learning to forecast...

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Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway

Bertrand, Marianne - 2014

In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of public limited …

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Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment

Bhuller, Manudeep - 2016

challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the context of Norway …

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University Innovation and the Professor's Privilege

Hvide, Hans K. - 2016

experiment: the end of the "professor's privilege" in Norway, where university researchers previously enjoyed full rights to … their innovations. Upon the reform, Norway moved toward the typical U.S. model, where the university holds majority rights …

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A Cross-Cohort Analysis of Human Capital Specialization and the College Gender Wage Gap

Sloane, Carolyn - 2019

In this paper, we exploit new data to assess gender differences in pre-labor market specialization among the college educated and highlight how those differences have evolved over time. We highlight new results pertaining to gender differences in the mapping between undergraduate major and...

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Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage : Evidence from Brazil

Engbom, Niklas; Moser, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We show that a rise in the minimum wage accounts for a large decline in earnings inequality in Brazil since 1994. To this end, we combine rich administrative and survey data with an equilibrium model of the Brazilian labor market. Our results imply that the minimum wage has far-reaching...

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