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This paper presents a simple model of strategic network formation with local complementarities in effort levels and positive local externalities for a general class of payoff functions. Results are obtained for one-sided and two-sided link creation. In both cases (pairwise) Nash equilibrium...
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This paper analyzes peer effects among university scientists. Specifically, it investigates whether the number of peers and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual endogeneity problems related to estimating peer effects are...
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Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidizethe price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a newsurvey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerablevariation in joining among...
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The process of economic integration over the past two decades has been accompanied by an expanding income wedge between skilled and unskilled workers in many developing countries. This was also the case for Ugandan wage employees during the 1990s, which was a period of abrupt trade opening and...
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Truancy is often seen as irrational behaviour on the part of school age youth. This paper takes the opposite view and models truancy as the solution to a time allocation problem in which youths derive current returns from activities that reduce time spent at school. The model is estimated using...
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work in sectors where education is relatively highly valued. Controlling for this effect does indeed account for much of …
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Given recent emphasis on externality to education, macroeconomic studies have a role to play in the analysis of return … panel of Italian regions. We include measures of average, primary, secondary and tertiary education. We find that increased … education seems to contribute to growth only in the South. Decomposing total schooling into its three constituent parts, we find …
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Changes in the relative wages of workers with different amounts of education have profound implications for developing … countries over the 1980s and 1990s to document trends in men's returns to education, and to estimate whether the changes in …
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Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes … but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health … extensive and intensive margins of education on mental health using various estimators. For all estimators, accounting for the …
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cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market … functions and selectivity-corrected earnings fluctuations, and calculates the rates of return to education for the two sexes …, the rates of returns to education rise by education level. The analysis suggests that, as well as overall labour girls …
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