[…] a statistical model of crime and drug-taking behaviour by people aged 10-19 observed over a four-year period 2003-6 we show that, even if cannabis has no causal impact on the risk of initiation into other drugs, conventional statistical methods tend to show a spurious positive effect of cannabis. Our conclusion is that many research […]
This paper tries to identify the causal impact of labor conditions on health in two different ways. First of all, we will try to isolate the effect of general labor conditions by using the distinction between blue collar and white collar employment. Secondly, we examine the specific effect of smoke-free workplaces by exploiting the […]
[…] not having an initial underlying difference. When groups have an underlying difference, even a small amount of inter-group interactions generates large asymmetries in terms of welfare and prevalence. Hence, failing to account for the equilibrium impact of the interaction structure may lead to over- estimating underlying differences across groups, and therefore to suboptimal immunization plans.
[…] in its importance, which itself may be explained by a fall in nominal interest rates. Finally, a rise in the relative incomes of pensioners and households with children under five has pulled inequality down. Overall, these four factors have almost entirely offset the impact of the rise in earnings and self-employment income inequality since 1991.
While a large literature has focused on the impact of parental investments on child cognitive development, very little is known about the role of child’s own investments. Information on how children invest their time separately from parents is probably little informative for babies and toddlers, but it becomes more and more important in later […]
[…] the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve their ultimate goals.
[…] 2005 motivated many regional governments to implement their own social programs that differ in terms of design and generosity. So far, however, little is known about the impact of the tax-benefit policies on income distribution and poverty in Russia. This paper describes the construction of a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Russia (RUSMOD) which is […]
[…] the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve their ultimate goals.
[…] personal social capital. We develop an econometric model of friendship formation and labor market outcomes allowing for partial observation of networks, and provide new evidence on the impact of early family environment on popularity. We estimate that moving from the 20th to 80th percentile of the high-school popularity distribution yields a 10% wage premium […]
[…] Only three countries, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK, did not impose restrictions to immigration from Eastern Europe. Did the elimination of barrier to immigration have an impact on the quality of immigrants arriving to the UK? Using EU15 immigrants as a control group, we find systematic differences between EU8 immigrants arrived before and […]