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Autor:
Simon D. Woodcock
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SSRN Electronic Journal.
Publikováno v:
Economic Inquiry. 54:1805-1823
Marriage is a core institution in almost every human society, including small-scale societies based on foraging or subsistence agriculture. A crucial dimension of the marriage systems in such societies involves endogamy and exogamy, that is, the choi
Publikováno v:
Health Economics Review
In health economic evaluation studies, to value productivity loss due to absenteeism, existing methods use wages as a proxy value for marginal productivity. This study is the first to test the equality between wage and marginal productivity losses du
Publikováno v:
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique. 45:784-807
We estimate the effect of information about school achievement that is disseminated to the public through websites and school ‘report cards’ on school choice decisions. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when public infor
Autor:
Gary Benedetto, Simon D. Woodcock
Publikováno v:
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 53:4228-4242
One approach to limiting disclosure risk in public-use microdata is to release multiply-imputed, partially synthetic data sets. These are data on actual respondents, but with confidential data replaced by multiply-imputed synthetic values. When imput
Publikováno v:
Social sciencemedicine (1982). 147
One source of productivity loss due to illness is the reduced "quantity" or "quality" of labor input while working, often referred to as presenteeism. Illness-related presenteeism has been found to be potentially more costly than absenteeism. To valu
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
We investigate the effects of public school open enrolment, which allows students to enroll in any public school with available space, on fourth grade test scores. We find a small, positive effect on the average student; this benefit appears to stem
Autor:
Simon D. Woodcock
Publikováno v:
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. 10
This paper examines the role of agent heterogeneity and learning on wage and employment dynamics. In the first half of the paper, I present an equilibrium matching model where heterogeneous workers and firms learn about match quality and bargain over
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
We estimate the effect of publicly disseminated information about school-level achievement on students' mobility between elementary schools. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when poor school-level performance is revealed. I
Publikováno v:
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. 8
The existence of glass ceilings and sticky floors suggests that disadvantaged workers will be under-represented in some parts of the income distribution, and over-represented in others. We present a representation index that measures the prevalence o