We study the impact of financial incentives on higher education decisions and choice major. rely a reform whereby Israeli kibbutzim shifted from their traditional policy equal sharing to productivity-based wages. use for identification staggered implementation this in different kibbutzim. In setting very low initial returns education, we find that dramatic increase rate return its sharp variati...

THE GRAPPLING SPORTS OF JUDO, JIU-JITSU, AND WRESTLING REQUIRE THE ATHLETE TO BE IN PEAK PHYSICAL SHAPE. SPECIFIC TRAINING TARGETING ALL HEALTHAND SKILL-RELATED FITNESS CONDITIONING COMPONENTS IS NEEDED TO MAXIMIZE SUCCESS IN GRAPPLING SPORTS. STRENGTH AND CONDITION PROGRAMS FOR GRAPPLERS CONSIST OF WEIGHT, PLYOMETRIC, AGILITY, FLEXIBILITY, SPEED, AND AEROBIC TRAINING ALL PROPERLY PERIODIZED AN...

We document that U.S. employment polarization in the 1980–2017 period is largely generated by women. In addition, we provide evidence increase of shares at bottom skill distribution market sectors producing services representing home production substitutes. use a calibrated macroeconomic model to show rising premium induces high-skilled women participate more labor market, reduce working hours,...

The opinions expressed in this paper are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the OECD or of the governments of its Member countries. Division in the Directorate for Education and it complements the analyses being undertaken by the participating countries and the OECD Secretariat. The objectives of the review are to examine how the organisation, financi...

This paper quantifies the individual, aggregate and welfare effects of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in United States. In particular, we analyse labour supply saving responses to changes tax credit generosity their implications for prices welfare. Our results show that EITC is a subsidy on income savings. An increase raises force participation, reduces savings many provides insurance working ...

Robert Valletta’s paper “Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium...” illuminates one of the leading puzzles for contemporary U.S. labor economics: the unexpected ‘flattening’ of the premium to higher education in the United States in the 2000’s. This single metric—the college/high-school wage premium—has been the North Star guiding neoclassical analysis of the evolution of wage i...

We examine whether and to what extent consolidation in the U.S. health insurance industry is leading to higher employer-sponsored insurance premiums. We make use of a proprietary, panel dataset of employer-sponsored healthplans enrolling over 10 million Americans annually between 1998 and 2006 to explore the relationship between premium growth and changes in market concentration. We exploit the...

An interesting aspect of games is the relative extent to which a player can positively influence his results by making appropriate strategic choices. This question is closely related to the issue of how to distinguish between games of skill and games of chance. The distinction between these two types of games is definitely interesting from a juridical point of view. Borm and Van der Genugten (2...