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No pass no drive: Education and allocation of time
Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernández, Marian - 2012
Do negative incentives or sticks in education improve student outcomes? Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282337
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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - 2007
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600714
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The Short- And Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban
Piza, Caio; Souza, André Portela; Emerson, Patrick M.; … - 2022
Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351863
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Job retention schemes during COVID-19: A review of policy responses
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Rinne, Ulf; Brunner, Johannes - 2022
This policy brief provides an update on job retention policies in a sample of 20 countries representing the main world regions as well as the diverse types of job retention schemes, in particular short-time work, furlough and wage subsidy schemes as they have been implemented in response to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320005
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Social transfer programmes and school enrolment in Malawi: A micro-simulation
Nanivazo, Malokele - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on children's enrolment and gender, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333700
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Does High School Homework Increase Academic Achievement?
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2014
Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which are less accurate than time-diary data. However, most time-diary data sets do not contain outcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352338
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Wheeling into School and Out of Crime: Evidence from Linking Driving Licenses to Minimum Academic Requirements
Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernández, Marian - 2016
preference for driving to stay in school beyond the minimum dropout age. Using Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrest data … our findings are driven by an increase in education rather than incapacitation and that NPND laws are a relatively low … cost policy that generates positive externalities beyond and in addition to the minimum dropout age. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584661
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Do employment subsidies reduce early apprenticeship dropout?
Fries, Jan; Göbel, Christian; Maier, Michael F. - 2013
We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship … of apprenticeship dropout. Even though the subsidy provides strong incentives to prevent dropout, we do not find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319212
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Oversupply of Labor and Other Peculiarities of Arts Labor Market
Popović, Milenko; Ratković, Kruna - 2013
There are several striking peculiarities of the arts labor market that have attracted the attentions of researchers in the last several decades: first is constant long run excess supply of arts labor; second, artists are more likely to be multiple-job-holders than other professions; third,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322365
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An unconditional basic income in the family context: Labor supply and distributional effects
Horstschräer, Julia; Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2010
In this paper we estimate the effects of an unconditional basic income on labor supply and income distribution with a special focus on the incentives to work in the family context. An unconditional basic income guarantees every citizen a minimum income without any means-testing. We simulate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303004