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In a small moment: Class size and moral hazard in the Mezzogiorno

Angrist, Joshua D.; Battistin, Erich; Vuri, Daniela - 2015

An instrumental variables (IV) identification strategy that exploits statutory class size caps shows significant achievement gains in smaller classes in Italian primary schools. Gains from small classes are driven mainly by schools in Southern Italy, suggesting a substantial return to class size...

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After apartheid: The effects of ANC power

Poulsen, Jonas - 2013

The African National Congress (ANC) can look back on eighty years of struggle which resulted in the liberation of black Africans, the creation of a democratic constitution and free elections. However, the last twenty years of ANC rule has been criticized for the failure to bring higher living...

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Multiple misbehaving: Loss averse and inattentive to monetary incentives

Engström, Per; Nordblom, Katarina; Stefánsson, Arnaldur - 2018

substantially higher (standard economic) incentives to claim deductions than taxpayers slightly below the kink. Using a regression … due to the tax incentives per se. When controlling for the preliminary tax deficit, the kink at the tax threshold … economic incentives. The Swedish taxpayers are thus "misbehaving", in a Thaler (2015) sense, on two separate margins: they are …

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The returns to college choice: Loans, scholarships and labor outcomes

Montoya, Ana Maria; Noton Norambuena, Carlos; Solis, Alex - 2018

To estimate causal effects of college choice, we exploit eligibility rules for student loans in a regression discontinuity design. Loan programs induce students to pursue college degrees that are more expensive and prolonged relative to technical education. Although higher education is...

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Tipping and the effects of segregation

Böhlmark, Anders; Willén, Alexander - 2017

We examine the effect of ethnic residential segregation on short- and long-term education and labor market outcomes of immigrants and natives. Our identification strategy builds on the one-sided tipping point model, which predicts that neighborhood native population growth drops discontinuously...

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Last in, first out? Estimating the effect of seniority rules in Sweden

von Below, David; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2008

In this paper we investigate whether a relaxation in seniority rules (the last-in-first-out-principle) had any effect on firms' employment behaviour. Seniority rules exist in several countries and, like Sweden, most European countries have a more lenient employment protection for firms below a...

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The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles

Costa Dias, Monica; Ichimura, Hidehiko; van den Berg, … - 2008

The matching method for treatment evaluation does not balance selective unobserved differences between treated and non-treated. We derive a simple correction term if there is an instrument that shifts the treatment probability to zero in specific cases. Policies with eligibility restrictions,...

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Paternity leave and child outcomes

Avdic, Daniel; Karimi, Arizo; Sjögren, Anna; Sundberg, Elin - 2023

We study how fathers' time impacts children's human capital using the introduction of earmarked paternity leave in Sweden. We use administrative data on parents' leave uptake and children's educational outcomes in a difference-in-discontinuities design, exploiting the plausibly random timing of...

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Parental responses to public investments in children: Evidence from a maximum class size rule

Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2015

We study differential parental responses to variation in class size induced by a maximum class size rule in Swedish schools. In response to an increase in class size: (i) only high-income parents help their children more with homework; (ii) all parents are more likely to move their child to...

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Policy discontinuity and duration outcomes

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Bozio, Antoine; Dias, Mónica Costa - 2015

Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change, if there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...

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