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The Long-Term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading of High-Stakes Tests

Diamond, Rebecca - 2016

We examine the long-term consequences of teacher discretion in grading of high-stakes tests. Bunching in Swedish math test score distributions reveal that teachers inflate students who have “a bad test day,” but do not to discriminate based on immigrant status or gender. By developing a new...

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Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives

Bjorklund, Anders - 2010

This paper examines the evolution of economic inequality in Sweden before, during and after the major macro … buttressed disposable income for those with low income, and despite the rise in inequality, Sweden remained one of the most … low to explain that Sweden moved to the top of the league tables in knowledge intensive activities. Our analysis of …

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How Large are Returns to Schooling? Hint : Money Isn't Everything

Oreopoulos, Philip - 2009

This paper explores the many avenues by which schooling affects lifetime well-being. Experiences and skills acquired in school reverberate throughout life, not just through higher earnings. Schooling also affects the degree one enjoys work and the likelihood of being unemployed. It leads...

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Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden

Laun, Lisa - 2011

Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We use three different measures of population health: (1) the mortality … Statistics Sweden's Survey on Living Conditions (ULF, 1975-2005); (3) the utilization of health care from the inpatient register …

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The Labor Market Effects of Credit Market Information

Bos, Marieke - 2016

Credit information affects the allocation of consumer credit, but its effects on other markets that are relevant for academic and policy analysis are unknown. This paper measures the effect of negative credit information on the employment and earnings of Swedish individuals at the margins of the...

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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching

Orefice, Gianluca; Peri, Giovanni - 2021

The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...

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The Pay-as-You-Go Pension System as a Fertility Insurance and Enforcement Device

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2022

It is argued that a PAYGO system may have useful allocative functions in that it serves as an insurance against not having children and as an enforcement device for rotten kid' who are unwilling to pay their parents a pension. It is true that the system has amoral hazard effect in terms of...

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Keepin' 'EM Down on the Farm : Migration and Strategic Investment in Children's Schooling

Jensen, Robert T. - 2017

In rural areas of most developing countries, intergenerational coresidence is both widespread and an important determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on the family farm or provide care and assistance around...

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Aggregating the Fertility Transition : Intergenerational Dynamics in Quality and Quantity

Vogl, Tom - 2017

Fertility change is distinct from other forms of social and economic change because it directly alters the size and composition of the next generation. This paper studies how changes in population composition over the fertility transition feed back into the evolution of average fertility across...

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Inequality in Human Capital and Endogenous Credit Constraints

Hai, Rong - 2017

This paper investigates the determinants of inequality in human capital with an emphasis on the role of the credit constraints. We develop and estimate a model in which individuals face uninsured human capital risks and invest in education, acquire work experience, accumulate assets and smooth...

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