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The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables

Freier, Ronny; Storck, Johanna - 2012

analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their …

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Cognitive skills, gender and risk preferences

Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - 2012

In this paper we utilise data from a unique new birth-cohort study to see how the risk preferences of young people are affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university entrance at age 18) has no effect on risk preferences...

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Aging and productivity: Evidence from piece rates

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope - 2012

We evaluate the effects of aging on productivity using piece-rate earnings as a proxy for worker output. Our data contain the population of Finnish blue collar workers in 61 different industries during 1990-2002. A unique feature of the data is that we can observe the exact hours worked on piece...

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Parents transmit happiness along with associated values and behaviors to their children: A lifelong happiness dividend?

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2012

grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un …-versa, long after the 'children' have left home. Data come from 25 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP, 1984 …-2008). SOEP is the only panel survey worldwide in which data on life satisfaction have been obtained from parents and an adequate …

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Promotion and wages in mid-career: Gender, unionism, and sector

Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet; Wang, Si - 2012

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages, thereby complementing extant studies of the NLSY that...

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The frisch elasticity in labor markets with high job turnover

Céspedes Reynaga, Nikita; Rendon, Silvio - 2012

employed labor force has formal and stable jobs, we perform a fixed effects estimation as proposed by MaCurdy (1981) with a …

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Entrepreneurship: Cause or consequence of financial optimism?

Dawson, Christopher; De Meza, David Emmanuel; Henley, Andrew - 2012

Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by more than employees do is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may generate optimism or optimists may be drawn to self-employment. This paper finds that employees who will be self-employed in...

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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings

Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012

Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...

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Indebted and overweight: The link between weight and household debt

Averett, Susan L.; Smith, Julie K. - 2012

There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused by unobserved common factors. We use OLS and Propensity Score Matching to ascertain if household...

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Rent sharing as a driver of the glass ceiling effect

Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - 2012

employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows controlling for observed individual and firm …

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