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School shootings and student performance

Poutvaara, Panu; Ropponen, Olli - 2010

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can use a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the...

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Uniform and nonuniform staggering of wage contracts

Danziger, Leif - 2010

This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as well as for the markedly nonuniform staggering in others. In the model, short and long contracts as well as long contracts concluded in different periods are strategic...

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Causal effects of monetary shocks: semiparametric conditional independence tests with a multinomial propensity score

Angrist, Joshua D.; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - 2008

Macroeconomists have long been concerned with the causal effects of monetary policy. When the identification of causal effects is based on a selection-on-observables assumption, non-causality amounts to the conditional independence of outcomes and policy changes. This paper develops a...

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Asymmetric shocks and EMU: Is there a need for a stability fund?

Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - In: Intereconomics 33 (1998) 6, pp. 274-288

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Food price inflation and children's schooling

Grimm, Michael - 2008

the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income … elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the shock-induced loss in purchasing power had an immediate effect on … enrolment rates. Instrumental variable estimates show that the effect of household income on children's school enrolment is much …

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The importance of global shocks for national policymakers: rising challenges for central banks

Belke, Ansgar; Rees, Andreas - 2009

We analyze the importance of global shocks for the global economy and national policy makers. More specifically, we investigate whether monetary policy has become less effective in the wake of financial globalization. We also examine whether there is increasing uncertainty for central banks due...

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Firm dynamics and real exchange rate fluctuations: does trade openness matter? ; evidence from Mexico's manufacturing sector

Fuentes, Miguel; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2009

In this paper we study the effect of NAFTA on the responsiveness of Mexican economy to real exchange rate shocks. We argue that, by opening the U.S. and Canadian markets to Mexican goods, NAFTA made it easier for domestic producers to take advantage of the opportunities brought by the...

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Employment, wages, and the economic cycle: differences between immigrants and natives

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Vogel, Thorsten - 2009

In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant populations, there are similar and significant differences...

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The effects of labor supply shocks on labor market outcomes: Evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Mansour, Hani - 2010

Since September 2000, as a result of mobility restrictions, the supply of Palestinian workers competing for local jobs in the West Bank has increased by about fifty percent. This paper takes advantage of this unique natural experiment to study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market...

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Unwarranted final demand shocks of public deficits reductions in Germany: UMTS windfall revenue impacts

Erber, Georg - In: Intereconomics 38 (2003) 1, pp. 38-50

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