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, leaving cumulative instruction time mostly unchanged. I use this change in schooling policy to identify the effect of …
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survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields … on individual life satisfaction. Controling for personal characteristics we apply innovative instrumental variable … individual well-being. Additionally, we also find that income and future job chances are the most important drivers of happiness …
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Schools are not only places where students acquire academic skills; they are also social environments where children … can develop the social and emotional competencies that they need to thrive. Yet despite the global interest in students … life at school. The data from PISA 2015 show that students differ greatly, both between and within countries, in how …
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Daylight savings time (DST) represents a public good with costs and benefits. We provide the first comprehensive … regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that … individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring …
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This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day-of the-week effect. Overall, we find a 'blue' Sunday...
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Daylight savings time (DST) represents a public good with costs and benefits. We provide the first comprehensive … regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that … individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring …
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