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This paper examines anonymous and non-anonymous Growth Incidence Curves (GICs) for after-tax disposable income for …
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We propose estimating gender peer effects in school by exploiting within-school variation in gender composition across birth cohorts. Our approach differs from the existing literature, which exploits variation in gender composition at a given grade level in different years. We argue that the...
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This paper examines the change in body mass index for a cohort of Irish children as they aged from 9 to 13 and decomposes the change into parts attributable to changes in observable characteristics and changes in returns to observable characteristics. The decomposition is carried out over the...
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family planning, the reform increased their likelihood of having a first or second child without reducing employment … women, most of whom already had at least one child, the reform boosted employment but decreased the likelihood of having … more children, implying that increased maternal employment may have raised the opportunity costs of additional children. …
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