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Twitter and Crime: The Effect of Social Movements on GenderBased Violence
ifo Working Paper : 381 (ifo Institute, 31.10.2022)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 ... -
Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
IZA Discussion Papers : 15318 (IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 05 / 2022)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. ... -
Do Second Chances Pay Off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students
IZA Discussion Papers : 15139 (IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 03 / 2022)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 ... -
Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland's Integration Plans
IZA Discussion Papers : 15310 (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 ... -
The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries
NBER Working Paper : 29727 (NBER, 02 / 2022)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, ...