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Title:The Role of Mothers and Fathers in Providing Skills: Evidence from Parental Deaths
Author(s):ADDA, Jérôme; BJÖRKLUND, Anders; HOLMLUND, HelenaDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children’s cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as on labor market outcomes. We exploit a large administrative data set covering many Swedish ...
Title:"For One More Year with You": Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe
Author(s):BRUNELLO, Giorgio; FORT, Margherita; WEBER, GuglielmoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time
in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of
education on the distribution of earnings. We ...
Title:Technology Adoption, Turbulence and the Dynamics of Unemployment
Author(s):DUERNECKER, GeorgDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The divergence of unemployment rates between the U.S. and Europe coincided
with a substantial acceleration in capital-embodied technical change in the late 70’s.
Furthermore, evidence suggests that European economies ...
Title:Competition, Human Capital and Income Inequality with Limited Commitment
Author(s):MARIMON, Ramon; QUADRINI, VincenzoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with two-sided
limited commitment to study how barriers to competition, such as restrictions
to business start-up, affect the incentive to accumulate human
capital. We show ...
Title:Implementing Value-Added Models of School Assessment
Author(s):JAKUBOWSKI, MaciejDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper considers value-added models of school assessment and their implementation in Poland. Value-added estimates can be very helpful for schools and policy makers who need a reliable way to control teaching effectiveness, ...
Title:‘The Child is Father of the Man:’ Implications for the Demographic Transition
Author(s):DE LA CROIX, David; LICANDRO, OmarDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We propose a new theory of the demographic transition based on the evidence
that body development during childhood is an important factor for life expectancy.
The key and novel mechanism of the model is that parents face ...
Title:The Bargaining Family Revisited: A Comment
Author(s):MIZUSHIMA, Atsue; FUTAGAMI, KoichiDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper reexamines results of Konrad and Lommerud (2000). They
construct a two-stage game model of a family. We show that their result
crucially depends on their linear payoff function and obtain an opposite result
if ...