The use of genetic markers as instrumental variables (IV) is receiving increasing attention from epidemiologists, economists, statisticians and social scientists. This paper examines the conditions that need to be met for genetic variants to be used as instruments. Although these have been...

The application of the reduction of working time (ARTT) constitutes a factor of development on a large scale for both individuals and organisations in French firms. This research attempts to improve our understanding of the ARTT agreements and to evaluate their impacts on the development of...

L’apprentissage : un monde morcelé L’élargissement du domaine de l’apprentissage : de la marginalisation à la promotion volontariste de l’apprentissage salarié - Apprentissage traditionnel et « nouveau territoire de l’apprentissage » : deux univers cloisonnés ? Évolution de...

Lorsque les attentes des salariés ne rencontrent plus celles de leur entreprise ou, plus simplement, lorsque les salariés ne sont pas satisfaits des politiques de leur entreprise, la relation d’emploi peut se dégrader. Depuis les travaux d’Hirschman (1970), nous savons que les réactions...

Height has long been recognised as associated with better outcomes: the question is whether this association is causal. We use children’s genetic variants as instrumental variables (IV) to deal with possible unobserved confounders and examine the effect of child and adolescent height on a wide...

The use of genetic markers as instrumental variables (IV) is receiving increasing attention from economists. This paper examines the conditions that need to be met for genetic variants to be used as instruments. We combine the IV literature with that from genetic epidemiology, with an...