profession where stakes are high; advanced cancer surgery. For this purpose, we introduce a novel instrument that exploits the … closure and opening of entire cancer clinics which have given rise to sharp and exogenous changes in the cancer surgical … volumes at Swedish public sector hospitals. Using detailed register data on more than 100,000 episodes of advanced cancer …

mortality, independently and through income and education. Non-cognitive ability is a stronger predictor of the risk of … mortality than cognitive ability. For middle and high income earners, and individuals with a college education, there are no … associations between the abilities and mortality. However, for low income earners and individuals without a college education …

certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …

) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …

This paper investigates whether more general education reduces the risk of future unemployment by examining individuals … longer and more general program reduced the risk of experiencing unemployment during the 2008-2010 recession. Among students … unemployment. This pattern is strongest among male students and the effect is likely to be explained by the increased dropout rate …