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Twitter and Crime: The Effect of Social Movements on GenderBased Violence
(ifo Institute, 2022-10-31)
This paper asks whether social movements taking place on Twitter affect genderbased violence (GBV). Using Twitter data and machine learning methods, we construct a novel data set on the prevalence of Twitter conversations ...
Do Second Chances Pay Off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students
(IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 2022-03)
In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them or forgoing postsecondary education. We explore exogenous variation generated by a 2006 policy that ...
Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
(IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 2022-05)
We exploit admission cutoffs to secondary schools to study the effects of general academically oriented, versus vocational secondary schooling on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using a regression discontinuity design. ...
Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland's Integration Plans
(IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 2022)
This paper shows that an integration policy aimed at unemployed adult immigrants generated positive spillovers for their children. Our research design builds on a discontinuity in the phase-in-rule of Finland’s 1999 reform ...
Migration and tax policy: Evidence from Finnish full population data
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2022-10-27)
While evidence on the impact of taxation on the international migration of certain special groups of workers has expanded, evidence on the links between taxes and migration of the general population is extremely limited. ...
The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries
(NBER, 2022-02)
We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, ...
Social Interaction in the Family: Evidence from Investors’ Security Holdings
(Oxford University Press, 2022-09-10)
We show that investors tend to hold the same securities as their parents. This intergenerational correlation is stronger for mothers and family members who are more likely to communicate with each other. An instrumental ...
Migration and Tax Policy: Evidence from Finnish Full Population Data
(Tampereen yliopisto, 2022-10-05)
While evidence on the impact of taxation on the international migration of certain special groups of workers has expanded, evidence on the links between taxes and migration of the general population is extremely limited. ...
Prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector
(Tampereen yliopisto, 2022-12-22)
We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which an effective, widely accepted low-cost treatment and alternative, more expensive treatments are available. ...