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作者：Angrist, Joshua; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Toronto; University Health Network Toronto; University of British Columbia; University of Toronto
摘要：This paper reports on an experimental evaluation of strategies designed to improve academic performance among college freshmen. One treatment group was offered academic support services. Another was offered financial incentives for good grades. A third group combined both interventions. Service use was highest for women and for subjects in the combined group. The combined treatment also raised the grades and improved the academic standing of women. These differentials persisted through the end...
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作者：Maurin, Eric; Moschion, Julie
作者单位：Paris School of Economics; Paris School of Economics
摘要：In France, as in the US, a mother's labor market participation is influenced by the sex composition of her two eldest siblings. This paper shows that it is also affected by the sex composition of the eldest siblings of the other mothers living in the same close neighborhood. Using the sex composition of neighbors' eldest siblings as an instrumental variable, we identify a significant elasticity of own labor market participation to neighbors' participation. We present supportive evidence by com...
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作者：Field, Erica
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：This paper examines the influence of psychological responses to debt on career choices from an experiment in which alternative financial aid packages were assigned by lottery to a set of law school admits. The packages had equivalent monetary value, but one required the student to take on a loan that would be paid for by the school if he worked in public interest law, while the other covered tuition as long as the student worked in public interest law. If he did not, the student would be requi...
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作者：Carpenter, Christopher; Dobkin, Carlos
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
摘要：We estimate the effect of alcohol consumption on mortality using the minimum drinking age in a regression discontinuity design. We find large and immediate increases in drinking at age 21, including a 21 percent increase in recent drinking days. We also find a discrete 9 percent increase in the mortality rate at age 21, primarily due to motor vehicle accidents, alcohol-related deaths, and suicides. We estimate a 10 percent increase in the number of drinking days for young adults results in a 4...
