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From giving birth to paid labor: The effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers

Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014

Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...

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Long-term consequences of an innovative redundancy-retraining project: The Austrian Steel Foundation

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000

In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel mills and related firms in the metal industry have lead to large-scale redundancy plans. A special Steel Foundation was created as part of a social plan. This foundation acted like an independent training center, where...

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Identification of models of the labor Market

French, Eric; Taber, Christopher - 2010

This chapter discusses identification of common selection models of the labor market. We start with the classic Roy model and show how it can be identified with exclusion restrictions. We then extend the argument to the generalized Roy model, treatment effect models, duration models, search...

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Relative income, the breadwinner norm, and mental health in couples

Getik, Demid - 2022

The share of couples where the wife out-earns the husband is increasing in many countries. In this paper, I investigate how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental health is positively associated with own and spousal...

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Does a pint day affect your childs pay? The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on adult outcomes

Nilsson, J. Peter - 2008

This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal … alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was … the experiment have substantially reduced educational attainments, lower earnings and higher welfare dependency rates …

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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth: Evidence from a Swedish IVF policy

Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2023

and an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first comprehensive evaluation of SET. This is relevant given the …

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Be smart, live long: The relationship between cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and mortality

Öhman, Mattias - 2015

I study the association between cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and mortality, and investigate how well income and education act as proxy measures for ability. The risk of premature mortality is estimated using Cox proportional hazard models with a dataset of 692,303 Swedish men aged 18-20...

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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014

Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...

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Birth order and child health

Björkegren, Evelina; Svaleryd, Helena - 2017

Previous research has established that birth order affects outcomes such as educational achievements, IQ and earnings. The mechanisms behind these effects are, however, still largely unknown. In this paper, we examine birth-order effects on health, and whether health at young age could be a...

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Birth order and child health

Björkegren, Evelina; Svaleryd, Helena - 2017

Previous research has shown that birth order affects outcomes such as educational achievements, IQ and earnings. The mechanisms behind these effects are, however, still largely unknown. In this paper, we examine birth-order effects on health, and whether health at young age could be a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039269