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Local instruments, global extrapolation : external validity of the labor supply-fertility local average treatment effect
Bisbee, James; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Pop-Eleches, Christian; … - In: Journal of labor economics 35 (2017), pp. 99-147
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Testing unified growth theory : technological progress and the child quantity-quality trade-of
Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Strulik, Holger - 2021
technological progress on investments in education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess …A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and, in … interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD countries over the …
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Creative clusters in Europe : a microdata approach
Boix, Rafael; Lazzeretti, Luciana; Hervás-Oliver, … - 2011
Creative industries are highly concentrated forming clusters. One of the main problems for the identification of clusters of creative industries in Europe is the lack of data, constrained in practice to regions (NUTS 2) and influenced by the heterogeneity in the definition of NUTS across...
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Cultural heritage and the location choice of Dutch households in a residential sorting model
Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - 2011
Local amenities are an important factor in the location choice of households. Heterogeneity in preferences of households tends to sort households over different locations which satisfy best their preferences given their constraints. In this paper, we analyze the effect of cultural heritage on...
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Adult mortality in Russian rural areas : inter-regional comparisons
Blinova, Tatiana; Bylina, Svetlana - 2011
Regions of the Russian Federation draw up purpose-oriented programs aiming at improving the health and reducing the mortality among the population. The task of decreasing the mortality among the rural population, especially overcoming the phenomenon of "excess mor-tality" among the people of the...
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Acculturational homophily in friendships based on English-name usage : a natural experiment
Xu, Dafeng - 2015
This paper examines acculturational homophily in friendships of international students. Acculturation (also known as cultural assimilation) is measured by English-name usage. I use data from Renren.com, a Facebook-type social networking site based in China. The sample consists of students who...
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Migration, allocation and re-allocation of immigrants in the regional labour markets
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2015
whether migration contribute to change the labor market status of immigrants (like in job, in education, unemployed or outside …. Domestic migration has to a certain extent been beneficial for immigrants to obtain employment or to carry out an education …
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Labor market outcomes of highly educated immigrants : does your name matter?
Xu, Dafeng - 2015 - (Very preliminary version)
Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they have completed a significant fraction of human...
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Sorting based on amenities and income composition : evidence on the multiplier effect
Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - 2013
Recent research shows that urban heritage can be an important factor of residential location choice, and that especially highly educated households are attracted by the presence of cultural heritage. In this paper, we use a location choice model to investigate the attractiveness of neighborhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553821
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Rural mortality from external causes in Russian regions
Blinova, Tatiana; Bylina, Svetlana; Rusanovskiy, Victor - 2014
The paper addresses the factors that affect the reduction of rural mortality from external causes in the regions of RF of different types and contains an estimation of the degree of their impact. We made a quantitative analysis and built models of the factors and determinants of the existing...
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