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Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil
Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...
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Tapping into Talent : Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2020
in talent, frictions, and preferences. We link the model to micro-level data from Denmark and uncover a host of facts …
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Do Firms Respond to Gender Pay Gap Transparency?
Bennedsen, Morten - 2019
change in Denmark that requires firms to provide gender dis-aggregated wage statistics. Using detailed employee …
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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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Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment : Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform
Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 2008
In this paper, we investigate the responsiveness of the demand for college to changes in student aid arising from a Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid...
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Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries : Composition and Macroeconomic Effects
Alesina, Alberto - 1996
on three case studies: Denmark, Ireland and Italy …
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What is the Added Value of Preschool? Long-term Impacts and Interactions with a Health Intervention
Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2016
interaction with a health intervention during infancy. Using administrative data from Denmark together with variation in the …
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Housing Collateral, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship - Evidence from a Mortgage Reform
Jensen, Thais Lærkholm - 2014
individual-level micro data from Denmark. The reform allows us to disentangle the role of credit access from wealth effects that …
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Persistent Effects of Social Program Participation on the Third Generation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Gielen, Anne C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Can participation in safety net programs have long-lasting negative effects across multiple generations? Prior work shows a 1993 Dutch disability insurance reform which tightened requirements and lowered benefits for participants resulted in better outcomes for their children. We study the third...
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Comparing the Effects of Policies for the Labor Market Integration of Refugees
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
probability and earnings of refugees in Denmark during the last three decades. We first review the studies that use a credible … countries. We then describe the dynamics of labor market outcomes of several cohorts of refugees in Denmark. To our knowledge …, Denmark is the only country where the number and design of policy changes and the longitudinal individual data availability …
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