importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly …

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

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 …

Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the …

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 …

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 …

trials of summer youth employment programs in Chicago and Philadelphia to demonstrate how multiple experiments can help …; youth at higher risk of socially costly outcomes experience larger benefits. Identifying more interventions that combine …

We leverage a natural experiment in combination with data on adolescents' time preferences to assess whether there is …

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