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Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden

Edlund, Lena; Palme, Mårten; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Japanese atomic bomb survivors irradiated 8-25 weeks after ovulation subsequently suffered reduced IQ [Otake and Schull, 1998]. Whether these findings generalize to low doses (less than 10 mGy) has not been established. This paper exploits the natural experiment generated by the Chernobyl...

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Minimum Wage Effects on Employment and School Enrollment

Neumark, David; Wascher, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994

We argue in this paper that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers...

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Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes

Gould, Eric D.; Lavy, Victor Chaim; Paserman, M. Daniele - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

lacked any formal schooling or knowledge of a western-style culture or bureaucracy, believed that they were being "redeemed …

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Equilibrium effects of public goods: The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists

Ho, Kate; Neidell, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

In this paper we consider how the dental industry responded to the addition of fluoride to public drinking water. We take advantage of the staggered introduction of fluoridation throughout the country to analyze the changes in numbers of within-county dentists relative to physicians in the years...

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How large are returns to schooling? Hint: Money isn't everything

Oreopoulos, Philip; Salvanes, Kjell G - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper explores the many avenues by which schooling affects lifetime well-being. Experiences and skills acquired in school reverberate throughout life, not just through higher earnings. Schooling also affects the degree one enjoys work and the likelihood of being unemployed. It leads...

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Green Skills

Vona, Francesco; Marin, Giovanni; Consoli, Davide; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

The catchword ‘green skills’ has been common parlance in policy circles for a while, yet there is little systematic empirical research to guide public intervention for meeting the demand for skills that will be needed to operate and develop green technology. The present paper proposes a...

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Which Peers Matter? The Relative Impacts of Collaborators, Colleagues, and Competitors

Borjas, George; Doran, Kirk B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Many economists believe knowledge production generates positive spillovers among knowledge producers. The available … space). To isolate the key channel through which knowledge spills over, we use a unique data set to examine the impact of a … competitive effects in idea space, there is evidence of knowledge spillovers in collaboration space, when high-quality researchers …

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Immigrants' and Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Peri, Giovanni; Foged, Mette - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...

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Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment

Squicciarini, Mara P.; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

) from upper-tail knowledge. As a proxy for the historical presence of knowledge elites, we use city-level subscriptions to … firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative …

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Labor Market Polarization Over the Business Cycle

Foote, Christopher Lee; Ryan, Richard W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Job losses during the Great Recession were concentrated among middle-skill workers, the same group that over the long run has suffered the most from automation and international trade. How might long-run occupational polarization be related to cyclical changes in middle-skill employment? We find...

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