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We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years

Guinnane, Timothy - 2021

Economists have reported econometric results that rely on estimates of the population of every country in the world for … the past two thousand or more years. The underlying source is usually McEvedy and Jones’ Atlas of World Population History … Jones cannot take advantage of improved estimates reported since 1978. McEvedy and Jones often infer population sizes from …

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Collective labor supply of native dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands

van Klaveren, Chris; van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Maassen … - 2009

We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production....

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The effects of school competition on academic achievement and grading standards

Himmler, Oliver - 2009

Nationwide school choice and fixed per-student governmental funding provide incentives for Dutch schools to perform well. Roughly one third of Dutch pre-university schools are of catholic denomination. Acknowledging this widely available outside option to public and other schools, this paper...

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Are Professors Worth it? The Value-Added and Costs of Tutorial Instructors

Feld, Jan - 2019

A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions—small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...

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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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Are Dutch Old-Age Pensions Taxed Fairly and Efficiently?

Genser, Bernd - 2020

these problems, as well as other minor problems in Dutch pension taxation, could be solved by replacing the Netherlands …

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Social Capital and the Spread of Covid-19 : Insights from European Countries

Bartscher, Alina K. - 2020

, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …

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Benefit Duration, Job Search Behavior and Re-Employment

Lichter, Andreas - 2020

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals' job search behavior and re-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for...

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FDI and the Relevance of Spatial Linkages : Do Third Country Effects Matter for Dutch FDI?

Garretsen, Harry - 2013

The aim of this paper is to test for the relevance of spatial linkages for Dutch (outbound) FDI. To do so, and based on recent FDI theories, we estimate a spatial lag model to assess the importance of spatial linkages for Dutch FDI to 18 host countries. As a determinant of FDI, space or...

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Dynamics and Endogeneity of Firms' Recruitment Behaviour

Ehrenfried, Felix - 2019

Models of random search, directed search, or stock-ow matching differ substantially in the way they assume that job seekers and firms behave during the recruitment process. In this paper we identify new patterns about the recruitment behaviour of firms using the entropy balancing technique and...

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