57 research outputs found
Does the Housing Market React to New Information on School Quality?
This paper analyzes housing market reactions to the release of previously unpublished information on school quality. Using the sharp discontinuity in the information environment allows us to study price changes within school catchment areas, thus controlling for neighborhood unobservables. We find a substantial housing market reaction to publication of school quality indicators, suggesting that households care about school quality, and may be willing to pay for better schools. The publication effect is robust to a number of sensitivity checks, but does not seem to be permanent as prices revert to prepublication levels after two to three months. We discuss this reversion in relation to the literature on behavioral finance and the concept of limited attention.valuation of school quality, hedonic methods, price reversion
Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents
In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on childrenâs and parentsâ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for childrenâs cognitive skills. School performance at age 16 increases for children whose father is relatively higher educated than the mother. We find no evidence that fathersâ earnings and work hours are affected by paternity leave. Contrary to expectation, mothersâ labor market outcomes are adversely affected by paternity leave. Our findings do therefore not suggest that paternity leave shifts the gender balance at home in a way that increases mothersâ time and/or effort spent at market work.parental leave, labor supply, child development
Health Status After Cancer: Does It Matter Which Hospital You Belong To?
Background
Survival rates are widely used to compare the quality of cancer care. However, the extent to which cancer survivors regain full physical or cognitive functioning is not captured by this statistic. To address this concern we introduce post-diagnosis employment as a supplemental measure of the quality of cancer care.
Methods
This study is based on individual level data from the Norwegian Cancer Registry (n = 46,720) linked with data on labor market outcomes and socioeconomic status from Statistics Norway. We study variation across Norwegian hospital catchment areas (n = 55) with respect to survival and employment five years after cancer diagnosis. To handle the selection problem, we exploit the fact that cancer patients in Norway (until 2001) have been allocated to local hospitals based on their place of residence.
Results
We document substantial differences across catchment areas with respect to patients' post-diagnosis employment rates. Conventional quality indicators based on survival rates indicate smaller differences. The two sets of indicators are only moderately correlated.
Conclusions
This analysis shows that indicators based on survival and post-diagnosis employment may capture different parts of the health status distribution, and that using only one of them to capture quality of care may be insufficient
Electoral Competition and Endogenous Political Institutions: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Germany
Decentralization and regional government size in Spain
The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of fiscal decen- tralization on the size of regional governments in Spain, by controlling for economies of scale, interregional heterogeneity and institutional framework. We study it over 1985 to 2004 using a panel dataset of seventeen spanish regions. The results can be easily summarized. Firstly, it supports the classic public goods theory of a trade-off-between the economic benefits of size and the costs of heterogeneity. Secondly, it doesnât reject the âLeviathanâ hypoth- esis and neither does the âcommon poolâ hypothesis. Thirdly, by contrast, the paper partly rejects the âWallisââ hypothesis. It argues that government size is mediated by financial resources obtained through intergovernmental grants, consistent with welfare economics and positive economic policies. We conclude that later advances in the decentralisation process must be compatible with the goal of reducing fiscal imbalances that emanate from the vertical structure of fiscal power.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Electoral Thresholds and Political Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Reform in Germany
Did New Public Management Matter? An Empirical Analysis of the Outsourcing and Decentralization Effects on Public Sector Size
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