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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-08-01)The Trivers Willard hypothesis – that higher maternal quality is associated with a higher sex ratio – is tested using a large population survey from 12 European countries. Several outcomes are studied, the proportion of ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)Research on time preference formation and socioeconomic differences in discounting has received little attention to date. This article examines the extent to which early childhood differences emerge in measures of ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-09-12)We estimate a model of labor supply and participation in multiple programs for UK lone mothers which exploits a reform of in-work transfers. Cash entitlements increased but eligibility to in-kind child nutrition programs ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)This paper applies a unified methodology to multiple data sets to estimate both the levels and trends in U.S. high school graduation rates. We establish that (a) the true high school graduation rate is substantially lower ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-07-08)This paper reports estimates of the UK “college premium” for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-02-04)
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008)
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)We use the control function approach to identify the average treatment effect and the effect of treatment on the treated in models with a continuous endogenous regressor whose impact is heterogeneous. We assume a stochastic ...