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Satu Metsälampi, Xiaogeng Xu, Michael Kirchler, Kaisa Kotakorpi, Peter Hans Matthews, and Topi Miettinen
Although higher status or income rank is known to generate hedonic pleasure, little is known about the search for rank information. We report an experiment eliciting rank beliefs and providing rank …
This study examines the short-term effects of Finland’s 2021 reform, which extended compulsory schooling to age 18. Using detailed administrative data, I analyze changes in educational outcomes and …
We quantify the effect of education on mortality using a linkage of the full count 1940, 2000, and 2010 US census files and the Numident death records file. Our sample is composed of children aged …