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When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard: Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply

Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020

We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...

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Sweden's School Choice Reform and Equality of Opportunity

Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - 2014

This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students' and schools' locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This allows...

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Self-Assessment: The Role of the Social Environment

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2020

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of the social environment in shaping the accuracy of self-assessment. We introduce a novel incentivized measurement tool to measure the accuracy of self-assessment among children and use this tool to show that children from high...

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Self-Assessment : The Role of the Social Environment

Falk, Armin - 2020

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Gene x Environment Interactions: Polygenic Scores and the Impact of an Early Childhood Intervention in Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Conti, Gabriella; Jervis, Pamela; … - 2025

We evaluate impacts heterogeneity of an Early Childhood Intervention, with respect to the Educational Attainment Polygenic Score (EA4 PGS) constructed from DNA data based on GWAS weights from a European population. We find that the EA4 PGS is predictive of several measures of child development,...

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The Effect of Schooling on Parental Integration

Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2024

Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...

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The Impact of Student Aid Eligibility on Higher Education Applications

Remigereau, Camille; Schäper, Clara - 2024

This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using …

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Climate Changes Affect Human Capital

Caruso, Germán; de Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023

Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...

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Droughts and Malnutrition in Africa

Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2023

How costly are droughts to individuals' nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite-based vegetation index observed bi-monthly for 0.08° grids between 1982 and 2015. Across 32 African countries, conditional on individual characteristics, timing relative to growing...

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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans; Veenman, Justus - 2013

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …

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