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作者：Barrow, Lisa; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Rouse, Cecilia Elena; Brock, Thomas
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Chicago; Princeton University
摘要：We evaluate the effect of performance-based incentive programs on educational outcomes for community college students from a random assignment experiment at three campuses. Incentive payments over 2 semesters were tied to meeting two conditions-enrolling at least half-time and maintaining a C or better grade point average. Eligibility increased the likelihood of enrolling in the second semester after random assignment and total number of credits earned. Over 2 years, program group students com...
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作者：De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo; Pupo, Valeria
作者单位：University of Calabria
摘要：We analyze how the absence behavior of Italian public sector employees has been affected by a law, passed in June 2008, reducing sick leave compensation and increasing monitoring. We use micro data on 889 workers employed in public administration. We find that the employees'' probability of being absent diminishes and that the reduction is greater among employees suffering higher earnings losses. Employees are responsive to the monitoring intensity and to the announcement of policy changes. Fe...
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作者：Fiorini, Mario; Keane, Michael P.
作者单位：University of Technology Sydney; University of Oxford
摘要：The allocation of children's time among different activities may be important for cognitive and noncognitive development. Here, we exploit time use diaries from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to study the effects of time allocation. By doing so, we characterize the trade-off between different activities to which a child is exposed. On the one hand, our results suggest that time spent in educational activities, particularly with parents, is the most productive input for cognitive...
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作者：Bettinger, Eric; Haegeland, Torbjorn; Rege, Mari
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Universitetet i Stavanger
摘要：In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of 3. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected the long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using comprehensive administrative data, we estimate a difference-in-differences model that exploits differences in older siblings' exposures to the program. We find a significant positive treatment effect on older si...
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作者：Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stephane
作者单位：Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：In October 2007, France introduced an exemption on the income tax and social security contributions that applied to wages received for hours worked overtime. The goal of the policy was to increase the number of hours worked. This article shows that this reform has had no significant impact on hours worked. Conversely, it has had a positive impact on the overtime hours declared by highly qualified wage earners, who have opportunities to manipulate the overtime hours they declare in order to opt...
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作者：Zimmerman, Seth D.
作者单位：Yale University
摘要：I combine a regression discontinuity design with rich data on academic and labor market outcomes for a large sample of Florida students to estimate the returns to college admission for academically marginal students. Students with grades just above a threshold for admissions eligibility at a large public university in Florida are much more likely to attend any university than below-threshold students. The marginal admission yields earnings gains of 22% between 8 and 14 years after high school ...
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作者：Lazear, Edward P.
作者单位：Stanford University; Stanford University
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作者：Kuziemko, Ilyana
作者单位：Princeton University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：I model how children's acquisition of a given form of human capital incentivizes adults in their household to either learn from them (if children can teach the skill to adults, adults' cost of learning falls) or lean on them (if children's human capital substitutes for that of adults in household production, adults' benefit from learning falls). Using variation in compliance with an English-immersion mandate in California schools, I find that English instruction improved immigrant children's E...
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作者：Kroft, Kory; Pope, Devin G.
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Since the seminal work of Stigler in 1962, economists have recognized that information is costly to acquire and leads to search frictions. Growth in online search has lowered the cost of information acquisition. We analyze the expansion of the website Craigslist, which allows users to post job and housing ads. Exploiting the sharp geographic and temporal variation in the availability of online search induced by Craigslist, we produce three key findings: Craigslist significantly lowered classif...
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作者：Curto, Vilsa E.; Fryer, Roland G., Jr.
作者单位：Stanford University; Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：The SEED schools, which combine a No Excuses charter model with a 5-day-a-week boarding program, are America''s only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of understanding whether changing a student''s environment is an effective strategy to increase achievement among the poor. Using admission lotteries, we show that attending a SEED school increases achievement by 0.211 st...
