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Identifying the returns to lying when the truth is unobserved

Hu, Yingyao; Lewbel, Arthur - 2007

Consider an observed binary regressor D and an unobserved binary variable D*, both of which affect some other variable Y. This paper considers nonparametric identification and estimation of the effect of D on Y , conditioning on D* = 0. For example, suppose Y is a person's wage, the unobserved D...

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Returns to private education in Peru

Calónico, Sebastián; Ñopo, Hugo - 2007

The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent last decades. While there have been many claims about the differences in quality between private and public schools, there is no complete assessment...

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Social stratification and out-of-school learning

Andersson, Christian; Johansson, Per - 2009

To study effects of out-of-school learning we use data on boarding home pupils who attended elementary public schools in the 1940's. The out-of-school environment at the boarding homes could be considered being more learner friendly than the home environment on average: the pupils at the...

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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological kids and the incidence of...

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The wage expectations of European college students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001

the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …

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Making the (letter) grade: The incentive effects of mandatory pass/fail courses

Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Weerapana, Akila - 2022

-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regressiondiscontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …

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Women's colleges and economics major choice: Evidence from Wellesley College applicants

Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Weerapana, Akila - 2023

college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …

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Investigating the Corporate Governance and Sustainability Relationship: A Bibliometric Analysis Using Keyword-Ensemble Community Detection

Drago, Carlo; Fortuna, Fabio - 2023

Sustainability is a business strategy combining economic, social, and environmental issues. This paper examines the corporate governance and sustainability literature. So we consider a new bibliometric database focusing on the network of keywords appearing in the literature. The quantitative...

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Remote work admist the Covid-19 outbreak: Insights from an ensemble community-based keyword network analysis

Drago, Carlo; Errichiello, Luisa - 2024

COVID-19's rapid shift to remote working has sparked interest in synthetizing the growing body of research in order to gain a comprehensive understanding into the scholarship structure of the field. This study explores the issue of pandemic-induced remote working from a multidisciplinary...

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The relationship between GDP and the size of the informal economy: Empirical evidence for Spain

Duarte, Pablo - 2014

The empirical evidence on the linkage of the informal economy and GDP is ambiguous. It depends on the method used to estimate the size of the informal economy. I propose a common factor of four different approximations of the size of the informal economy as an alternative. Using Spain as an...

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