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Job displacement, remarriage, and marital sorting
Foerster, Hanno; Obermeier, Tim; Schulz, Bastian - 2024
We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory. Leveraging quasi-experimental variation from Danish establishment closures, we show that job displacement leads men to break up if matched with low-earning women and to re-match...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015196920
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The long-term effects of early sports selection
Mehic, Adrian - 2024 - This version: December 3, 2024
This paper examines the long-term effects of early sports selection using a regression discontinuity design. I show that Swedish track and field athletes who qualified for a one-time appearance with the junior national team at age 17 are less likely to quit sports and more likely to improve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015154727
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Assortative matching in Africa : evidence from rural Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire, and Malawi
Boxho, Claire; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - In: Economics letters 187 (2020), pp. 1-4
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504828
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Job displacement, remarriage and marital sorting
Foerster, Hanno; Obermeier, Tim; Schulz, Bastian - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015127504
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Job displacement, remarriage, and marital sorting
Foerster, Hanno; Obermeier, Tim; Schulz, Bastian - 2024
We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory. Leveraging quasi-experimental variation from Danish establishment closures, we show that job displacement leads men to break up if matched with low-earning women and to re-match...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075023
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Job displacement, remarriage, and marital sorting
Foerster, Hanno; Obermeier, Tim; Schulz, Bastian - 2024
We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory. Leveraging quasi-experimental variation from Danish establishment closures, we show that job displacement leads men to break up if matched with low-earning women and to re-match...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075041
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Assortative matching in Africa : evidence from rural Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire, and Malawi
Boxho, Claire; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019
socio-emotional skills, time and risk preferences, and education, using data from rural Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113697
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Decomposing migrant self-selection : education, occupation, and unobserved abilities
Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - In: ILR review : a publication of the New York State School … 78 (2025) 1, pp. 86-112
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015177201
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Changing patterns of inequality in Norway : the roles of gender, education, immigration and unions
Bennett, Patrick; Salvanes, Kjell G. - In: Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for … 45 (2024) 2, pp. 205-224
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015163818
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Education, skill, and earnings : further evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali; Turkson, … - 2014
This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337617