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The Long-Term Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Maternal Health and Subjective Well-Being

Heisig, Katharina - 2023

This paper studies the long-term impact of a paid parental leave reform in former East Germany in 1986 on maternal physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a maximum of twelve months. I use representative survey...

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Ready for School? Effects on School Starters of Establishing School Psychology Offices in Norway

Flatø, Martin; Bratsberg, Bernt; Kotsadam, Andreas; … - 2023

We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced ‘maturity testing …

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Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices

Butikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector—the Norwegian petroleum industry—on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational margins, by comparing individuals in regions exposed to the new sector...

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Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments

Aryal, Gaurab - 2020

local variation in compulsory schooling laws across multiple cohorts in Norway. Our preferred estimates indicate that the …

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Optimal Retirement with Disability Pensions

Fehr, Hans; Fröhlich, Adrian W. - 2023

This paper develops a general equilibrium life-cycle model with endogenous retirement and disability risk, in order to quantify the impact of recent pension reforms in Germany. At certain ages households may either apply for disability pensions (DP) or old-age pensions (OAP), de-pending on...

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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult …

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Collusive Tax Evasion by Employers and Employees : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Norway

Bjørneby, Marie - 2019

Third-party reporting and employers’ tax withholding are powerful compliance mechanisms, as long as the employer and employee do not collude to evade. Using data from randomly assigned on-site audits among 2,462 Norwegian firms, we provide evidence of collusive tax evasion. We find that firms...

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The threat of monitoring job search: A discontinuity design

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2010

Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the effect of a notification sent at least 8 months before job search is verified. The threat of...

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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016

. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

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Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations

Mengel, Friederike - 2019

This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are randomly allocated to female or male instructors. Despite the fact that neither students' grades...

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