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Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2010

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Estimating returns to education using different natural experiment techniques

Leigh, Andrew; Ryan, Chris - In: Economics of education review 27 (2008) 2, pp. 149-160

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Estimating teacher effectiveness from two-year changes in students’ test scores

Leigh, Andrew - In: Economics of education review 29 (2010) 3, pp. 480-488

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Bargaining Over Labor : Do Patients Have Any Power?

Gans, Joshua S. - 2011

We provide a new method of identifying the level of relative bargaining power in bilateral negotiations using exogenous variation in the degree of conflict between parties. Using daily births data, we study negotiations over birth timing. In doing so, we exploit the fact that fewer children are...

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Do School Principals Respond to Increased Public Scrutiny? New Survey Evidence from Australia

Coelli, Michael Bernard - 2018

We explore responses of Australian school principals to the introduction of test score reporting via the My School website in 2010. Our analysis is motivated by the implicit assumption that heightened public scrutiny should motivate principals to align schools' policies and practices with what...

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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

Booth, Alison L. - 2010

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated

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Long Run Trends in Australian Executive Remuneration : BHP 1887-2012

Pottenger, Mike - 2013

firms. Like the US, Australia experienced a post-war 'great compression' prior to the recent 'great divergence' …

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How Do Stamp Duties Affect the Housing Market?

Davidoff, Ian - 2013

Land transfer taxes are a substantial portion of the cost of moving house in many developed countries. Since stamp duties are endogenous with respect to the house price, we create an instrumental variable that is the stamp duty on a property, given that postcode's starting house price and the...

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Happiness and the Human Development Index : Australia is Not a Paradox

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - 2021

In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

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Immobile Australia : Surnames Show Strong Status Persistence, 1870–2017

Clark, Gregory - 2017

The paper estimates long run social mobility in Australia 1870–2017 tracking the status of rare surnames. The status …-run social mobility rates are low. Despite evidence on conventional measures that Australia has higher rates of social mobility … than the UK or USA (Mendolia and Siminski, 2016), status persistence for surnames is as high as that in England or the USA …

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