Blar i Discussion Papers på forfatter "Leuven, Edwin"

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    • Classroom grade composition and pupil achievement 

      Leuven, Edwin; Rønning, Marte (Discussion papers;722, Working paper, 2012-12)
      This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils ...

    • College as a Marriage Market 

      Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion Paper;No. 950, Working paper, 2021-04)
      Recent descriptive work suggests the type of college education (field or institution) is an important but neglected pathway through which individuals sort into homogeneous marriages. These descriptive studies raise the ...

    • Education and cancer risk 

      Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte (Discussion papers;777, Working paper, 2014-04)
      There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence ...

    • Field of study, earnings and selfselection 

      Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;794, Working paper, 2015-01)
      Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between ...

    • Long term impacts of class size in compulsory school 

      Leuven, Edwin; Løkken, Sturla A. (Discussion Papers;No. 858, Working paper, 2017-03-28)
      How does class size in compulsory school affect peoples’ long run education and earnings? We use maximum class size rules and Norwegian administrative registries allowing us to observe outcomes up to age 48. We do not ...

    • Reconciling estimates of the long-term earnings effect of fertility 

      Bensnes, Simon; Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Leuven, Edwin (Discussion Paper;No. 1004, Working paper, 2023-08)
      This paper presents novel methodological and empirical contributions to the child penalty literature. We propose a new estimator that combines elements from standard event study and instrumental variable estimators and ...

    • The relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors to cancer risk and cancer mortality in Norway 

      Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte (Discussion papers;776, Working paper, 2014-04)
      Using Norwegian cancer registry data we study twin and non-twin siblings to decompose variation in cancer at most common sites and cancer mortality into a genetic, shared environment and individual (unshared environmental) ...