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作者：Bruze, Gustaf; Svarer, Michael; Weiss, Yoram
作者单位：Aarhus University; Tel Aviv University
摘要：We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using panel data on two cohorts of Danish men and women. The marital surplus is identified from the probability of divorce and the surplus shares of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. We find that the educations of husbands and wives are complements. Education raises the share of the marital surplus for men but not for women. As men and women get older, husbands receive a larger share of th...
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作者：Boenke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Luethen, Holger
作者单位：Free University of Berlin; Free University of Berlin; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Free University of Berlin; Leibniz Association; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung
摘要：We employ German social security records to investigate intragenerational lifetime earnings inequality and mobility of yearly earnings for 35 cohorts, starting with the birth year 1935. Our main result is a striking secular rise of intragenerational inequality in lifetime earnings: West German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 85% more lifetime inequality than their fathers. In contrast, both short-term and long-term intragenerational mobility are stable. Longer unempl...
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作者：Schmutte, Ian M.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Despite their documented importance in the labor market, little is known about how workers use social networks to find jobs and their resulting effect on earnings. I use geographically detailed US employer-employee data to infer the role of social networks in connecting workers to jobs in high-paying firms. To identify social interactions in job search, I exploit variation in social network quality within small neighborhoods. Workers are more likely to change jobs, and more likely to move to a...
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作者：Vindigni, Andrea; Scotti, Simone; Tealdi, Cristina
作者单位：IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca; Collegio Carlo Alberto; Universite Paris Cite
摘要：This paper investigates social preferences over employment protection regulation in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand and sheds some light on the comparative dynamics of Eurosclerosis. When firing costs are low, a transition to a rigid labor market is favored by all the employed workers with idiosyncratic productivity below some threshold; when their status quo level is high, preserving a rigid labor market is favored only by the employed with intermediate productivity. A mor...
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作者：Perez-Arce, Francisco
作者单位：RAND Corporation
摘要：A public college randomly assigns applicants into a group that can enroll immediately and a group that can do so only after 1 year. One and a half years after the first group enrolled, individuals in that group were 19 percentage points more likely to be enrolled than those who had to wait. I present a model of educational decision making that predicts a substantial effect of deferral on attainment only when opportunity costs (wages) can vary across time within individuals. I estimate the mode...
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作者：Lu, Fangwen; Anderson, Michael L.
作者单位：Renmin University of China; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Many believe that classroom interactions play an important role in students' academic achievement, but there is little evidence on peer effects within subclassroom groups. We exploit random seat assignment in a Chinese middle school to estimate how the gender of neighboring students affects a student's academic achievement. We find that being surrounded by five females rather than five males increases a female's test scores by 0.2-0.3 standard deviations but has no significant effects on a mal...
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作者：Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan
作者单位：Claremont Colleges; Claremont McKenna College; Claremont Graduate University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University
摘要：Using data from a randomized experiment, we find that having a female teacher lowers the math test scores of female primary school students in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Moreover, we do not find any effect of having a female teacher on male students' test scores (math or reading) or female students' reading test scores, which seems to rule out explanations pertaining to the unobserved quality differences between male and female teachers. Finally, this negative effect seems to persist only fo...
