Paul J Devereux
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 991889 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul J Devereux |
| NOMBRES | Paul J |
| APELLIDO | Devereux |
| FIRMA | DEVEREUX P J |
| AFILIACIONES | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0221-8241 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 257 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Teacher Bias and Evaluation Differences in Test Scores
We study differences in teacher evaluations of student performance relative to those measured by test scores. While much literature is concerned with estimating various types of teacher biases, we show conceptually that there is no single ‘teacher bias’ effect. Even if teachers have no group bias, teacher evaluation differences by group masystematically deviate from test score differences if the distribution of test scores differs across groups. …
Levelling the playing field? SES differences in graduate degree choices
In many countries, subsidies towards higher education and financial assistance to students from poorer backgrounds have reduced socio-economic status (SES) gaps in the types of undergraduate degrees obtained. The increasing importance of graduate studies that are typically more expensive may, however, provide a new avenue for outcome differences by SES. We use administrative data from Ireland that allows us to explore SES differences while taking…
Gender differences in graduate degree choices
Where Does Wealth Come From? Measuring Lifetime Resources in Norway
In this paper, we use comprehensive administrative data on the population of Norway to create a measure of lifetime resources, which generates several stylized facts. First, lifetime resources are highly correlated with net wealth, but net wealth is more unequally distributed. Second, labor income is the most important component of lifetime resources, except among the top 1 percent where capital income and capital gains on financial assets become…
The (Un)Importance of Inheritance
Transfers from parents-either in the form of gifts or inheritances-have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows available to an individual (defined as the capitalized sum of net labor income, government transfers, and gifts and inheritances received over the period) accounted for by capitalized gifts and inherit…
Gender Differences in STEM Persistence after Graduation
Much attention is focused on finding ways to encourage females to study STEM in school and college, but what actually happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM persistence over the career. We find a continuous process whereby women are more likely to exit STEM than men. Among STEM undergraduate degree holders, women are more likely to obtain a non‐STEM master's d…
Gender differences in college applications
Choosing differently? College application behavior and the persistence of educational advantage
This Is Only a Test? Long-Run and Intergenerational Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout
We examine the effect of radiation exposure in utero, resulting from nuclear weapon testing in the 1950s and early 1960s, on long-run outcomes of Norwegian children. Exposure to low-dose radiation, specifically during months 3 and 4 in utero, leads to lower IQ scores for men and lower education attainment and earnings among men and women. Children of persons affected in utero also have lower cognitive scores, suggesting a persistent intergenerati…
The Curious Case of St Caffo’s Church, Anglesey, Wales
The Christianisation of later prehistoric sites has been hitherto rarely discussed (e.g. Holtorf 1997). However, it is becoming increasingly clear that many churchyards, in particular within the west of Britain possess histories that extend way before their current use and meaning. In this brief note, the authors describe and contextualise a recent discovery of a later prehistoric engraved bowl-mark that was found within the churchyard of St Caff…
Healthy(?), wealthy, and wise
Losing Heart? The Effect of Job Displacement on Health
Job reallocation is considered a key characteristic of well-functioning labor markets, as more productive firms grow and less productive ones contract or close. Despite its potential benefits for the economy, however, costs that are borne by the displaced workers are significant. The authors study how job displacement in Norway affects cardiovascular health, using a sample of men and women who are predominantly in their early 40s. To do so, they …
Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance
Given the wide use of child care subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer-run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of child care in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of child care subsidies on both parental and student outcomes. We find very small and statistically insignificant effects of child care subsidies on child care utilization and paren…
Stone Age Eyes and Ears
In 2006, the authors initiated the Landscape & Perception (L&P) project under the aegis of the Royal College of Art (RCA), London. The project is a pilot study of raw visual and acoustic elements mainly on and around the Carn Menyn ridge, Mynydd Preseli, south-west Wales, the source area of some of the Stonehenge bluestones, an area still relatively untouched by modern development. Sites in the surrounding Pembrokeshire countryside were also brie…
Indications of an Acoustic Landscape at Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey, North Wales
This Note reports on an initial observation made in 2012 of a distinct sound reflection of a percussive incident noise made at the restored Neolithic chambered tomb of Bryn Celli Ddu that emanated from an outcrop of rock in the ritual landscape surrounding the monument. The outcrop is marked with numerous cupmarks, presumably singling it out as a place of some kind of significance in Neolithic times. Audio recording of the point-specific echo in …
Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults
Teenage peers are perceived as being important, but there is little conclusive evidence demonstrating this. This paper uses data on the population of Norway and idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition within schools to examine the role of peer composition in ninth grade on longer-run outcomes such as IQ scores, teenage childbearing, education, and labor market outcomes. We find that outcomes are influenced by the proportion of females in th…
Dreamscapes
Dream content can be influenced by external sounds, smells, touch, objects glimpsed with half-open eyes during REM sleep, and somatic signals.This paper suggests that this individual, neurologically-driven process parallels that experienced collectively by pre-industrial tribal and traditional peoples in which the land itself entered into the mental lives of whole societies, forming mythic geographies-dreamscapes.This dreamtime perception was par…
Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility
Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age
Stonehenge Rocks
Since 2007, the “Landscape & Perception” project, under the auspices of the Royal College of Art, has undertaken a series of field visits to Preseli and surrounding landscapes in southwest Wales conducting audio and visual mapping activities. On some of those field sessions, part of the research focused on the rocks along the Carn Menyn ridge, a claimed main source area of the Stonehenge bluestones in the Preseli hills. The specific interest was …
Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults
A variety of public campaigns, including the "Just Say No" campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to "Just Say No to Drugs", are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school peers on the long-run outcomes of teenagers. This is primarily due to two factors: the absence of information on peers merged with long-run outcomes of individuals…
Forced to be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain
Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates. Given that the first order source of bias in OLS is likely to be upward as more able individuals tend to obtain more education, such high estimates are usually rationalized as reflecting the fact that the group of individuals who are influenced by the law ch…
Improved Jive Estimators for Overidentified Linear Models with and without Heteroskedasticity
We introduce two simple new variants of the jackknife instrumental variables (JIVE) estimator for overidentified linear models and show that they are superior to the existing JIVE estimator, significantly improving on its small-sample-bias properties. We also compare our new estimators to existing Nagar (1959) type estimators. We show that, in models with heteroskedasticity, our estimators have superior properties to both the Nagar estimator and …
A Ceiling Painting in the Hal-Saflieni Hypogeum as Acoustically-Related Imagery
This preliminary paper examines the ceiling painting in the “Oracle Room” in the Neolithic Hal-Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta. Visual evidence is found of associations between the painted imagery and a wall niche possessing exceptional acoustic qualities, considered by some to have functioned as a “speaking tube” for oracular pronouncements. Varying interpretations of the nature of the niche and of the painting are sampled before the proposition is mad…
Inscribed Across the Landscape
(2009). Inscribed Across the Landscape: The Cursus Enigma. Time and Mind: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 237-241
The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Children's Education
There is an extensive theoretical literature that postulates a trade-off between child quantity and quality within a family.However, there is little causal evidence that speaks to this theory.Using a rich data set on the entire population of Norway over an extended period of time, we examine the effects of family size and birth order on the educational attainment of children.We find a negative correlation between family size and children's educat…
Staying in the Classroom and Out of the Maternity Ward? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
This article investigates whether increasing mandatory educational attainment through compulsory schooling legislation encourages women to delay childbearing. We use variation induced by changes in compulsory schooling laws in both the US and Norway to estimate the effect in two very different institutional environments. We find evidence that increased compulsory schooling does in fact reduce the incidence of teenage childbearing in both the US a…
Preliminary investigations and cognitive considerations of the acoustical resonances of selected archaeological sites
Enclosed prehistoric spaces can have fine echoes. The Hypogeum, celebrated underground ossuary of Neolithic Malta, is the most resonant place to chant a rhythmic 'Oum'. Are the acoustic features of structures like the megalithic chambers of northern Europe integral to their design? An expert description of their acoustic properties is the point to start
Forced to be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain
Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates. Given that the first order source of bias in OLS is likely to be upward as more able individuals tend to obtain more education, such high estimates are usually rationalized as reflecting the fact that the group of individuals who are influenced by the law ch…
Losing Heart? The Effect of Job Displacement on Health
Job reallocation is considered a key characteristic of well-functioning labor markets, as more productive firms grow and less productive ones contract or close. Despite its potential benefits for the economy, however, costs that are borne by the displaced workers are significant. The authors study how job displacement in Norway affects cardiovascular health, using a sample of men and women who are predominantly in their early 40s. To do so, they …
Real Wage Cyclicality of Job Stayers, Within-Company Job Movers, and Between-Company Job Movers
Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data for 1975-2001, the authors estimate the wage cyclicality (the degree to which wage levels rise and fall with economic upturns and downturns) of three groups: job stayers, within-company job movers, and between-company job movers. Wages of internal movers, they find, were slightly more procyclical, and wages of external movers considerably more procyclical, than those of stayers. The greater cyclica…
Three-dimensional aspects of apparent relationships between selected natural and artificial features within the topography of the Avebury complex
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The Cyclicality of Real Wages within Employer-Employee Matches
Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the author examines the cyclicality of wages within employer-employee matches for the years 1970-91. Recent research on wage cyclicality has suggested that wages are very procyclical (tending to rise and fall with economic upturns and downturns), even for workers who remain with the same employer. The author finds, however, that the evidence for wage procyclicality within the matches he examines…
The Spot Market Matters
Based on the methodology of Beaudry and DiNardo (1991) , this paper investigates the relative importance of the spot market and implicit contracts in the determination of British real wages. Empirical work is carried out separately for males and females with individual‐level data taken from the New Earnings Survey Panel for the years 1976–2001. In contrast to previous studies that used North American data, the spot market is found to be more impo…
The use of the Strauch Scale to study dream reports from sacred sites in England and Wales
Thirty-five volunteers spent between one and five nights in one of four unfamiliar outdoor “sacred sites” in England and Wales where they were awakened following rapid eye movement periods and asked for dream recall. They also monitored their dreams in familiar home surroundings, keeping dream diaries. Equal numbers of site dreams and home dream reports were obtained for each volunteer. Two judges, working blind and independently, evaluated each …
Gender Differences in STEM Persistence after Graduation
Much attention is focused on finding ways to encourage females to study STEM in school and college, but what actually happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM persistence over the career. We find a continuous process whereby women are more likely to exit STEM than men. Among STEM undergraduate degree holders, women are more likely to obtain a non‐STEM master's d…
Indications of an Acoustic Landscape at Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey, North Wales
This Note reports on an initial observation made in 2012 of a distinct sound reflection of a percussive incident noise made at the restored Neolithic chambered tomb of Bryn Celli Ddu that emanated from an outcrop of rock in the ritual landscape surrounding the monument. The outcrop is marked with numerous cupmarks, presumably singling it out as a place of some kind of significance in Neolithic times. Audio recording of the point-specific echo in …
Effects of Industry Growth and Decline on Gender and Education Wage Gaps in the 1980S
The author uses longitudinal data to study the effects of industry growth and decline on wage changes between 1976 and 2001. He finds that over this period, workers who were initially in industries that subsequently expanded enjoyed faster wage growth than other workers. Moreover, wage growth was strongly related to employment changes in industries the individual was likely to move to: that is, workers' wage growth tended to be relatively fast if…
Changes in Male Labor Supply and Wages
In the 1980s, both wages and labor supply of poorly educated men fell substantially relative to those of educated men. Some observers have interpreted this positive association between changes in wages and labor supply as reflecting movement along stable labor supply curves. The author casts doubt on this interpretation by showing that the wage elasticity necessary to account, by itself, for the observed labor supply decline would greatly exceed …
Gender differences in graduate degree choices
Dreamscapes
Dream content can be influenced by external sounds, smells, touch, objects glimpsed with half-open eyes during REM sleep, and somatic signals.This paper suggests that this individual, neurologically-driven process parallels that experienced collectively by pre-industrial tribal and traditional peoples in which the land itself entered into the mental lives of whole societies, forming mythic geographies-dreamscapes.This dreamtime perception was par…
Stonehenge Rocks
Since 2007, the “Landscape & Perception” project, under the auspices of the Royal College of Art, has undertaken a series of field visits to Preseli and surrounding landscapes in southwest Wales conducting audio and visual mapping activities. On some of those field sessions, part of the research focused on the rocks along the Carn Menyn ridge, a claimed main source area of the Stonehenge bluestones in the Preseli hills. The specific interest was …
Interview with Professor Timothy Darvill
Three-dimensional aspects of apparent relationships between selected natural and artificial features within the topography of the Avebury complex
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Preliminary investigations and cognitive considerations of the acoustical resonances of selected archaeological sites
Enclosed prehistoric spaces can have fine echoes. The Hypogeum, celebrated underground ossuary of Neolithic Malta, is the most resonant place to chant a rhythmic 'Oum'. Are the acoustic features of structures like the megalithic chambers of northern Europe integral to their design? An expert description of their acoustic properties is the point to start
The Cyclicality of Real Wages within Employer-Employee Matches
Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the author examines the cyclicality of wages within employer-employee matches for the years 1970-91. Recent research on wage cyclicality has suggested that wages are very procyclical (tending to rise and fall with economic upturns and downturns), even for workers who remain with the same employer. The author finds, however, that the evidence for wage procyclicality within the matches he examines…
The use of the Strauch Scale to study dream reports from sacred sites in England and Wales
Thirty-five volunteers spent between one and five nights in one of four unfamiliar outdoor “sacred sites” in England and Wales where they were awakened following rapid eye movement periods and asked for dream recall. They also monitored their dreams in familiar home surroundings, keeping dream diaries. Equal numbers of site dreams and home dream reports were obtained for each volunteer. Two judges, working blind and independently, evaluated each …
Changes in Male Labor Supply and Wages
In the 1980s, both wages and labor supply of poorly educated men fell substantially relative to those of educated men. Some observers have interpreted this positive association between changes in wages and labor supply as reflecting movement along stable labor supply curves. The author casts doubt on this interpretation by showing that the wage elasticity necessary to account, by itself, for the observed labor supply decline would greatly exceed …
The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Children's Education
There is an extensive theoretical literature that postulates a trade-off between child quantity and quality within a family. However, there is little causal evidence that speaks to this theory. Using a rich data set on the entire population of Norway over an extended period of time, we examine the effects of family size and birth order on the educational attainment of children. We find a negative correlation between family size and children's edu…
Why the Apple Doesn’t Fall Far
Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital by Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux and Kjell G. Salvanes. Published in volume 95, issue 1, pages 437-449 of American Economic Review, March 2005
The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Children's Education
There is an extensive theoretical literature that postulates a trade-off between child quantity and quality within a family.However, there is little causal evidence that speaks to this theory.Using a rich data set on the entire population of Norway over an extended period of time, we examine the effects of family size and birth order on the educational attainment of children.We find a negative correlation between family size and children's educat…
Effects of Industry Growth and Decline on Gender and Education Wage Gaps in the 1980S
The author uses longitudinal data to study the effects of industry growth and decline on wage changes between 1976 and 2001. He finds that over this period, workers who were initially in industries that subsequently expanded enjoyed faster wage growth than other workers. Moreover, wage growth was strongly related to employment changes in industries the individual was likely to move to: that is, workers' wage growth tended to be relatively fast if…
Real Wage Cyclicality of Job Stayers, Within-Company Job Movers, and Between-Company Job Movers
Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data for 1975-2001, the authors estimate the wage cyclicality (the degree to which wage levels rise and fall with economic upturns and downturns) of three groups: job stayers, within-company job movers, and between-company job movers. Wages of internal movers, they find, were slightly more procyclical, and wages of external movers considerably more procyclical, than those of stayers. The greater cyclica…
From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes
Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself is important or whether it simply reflects other hard-to-measure characteristics. By applying within twin techniques using an unusually rich dataset from Norway, we examine the effects of birth weight on both …
Improved Errors-in-Variables Estimators for Grouped Data
Grouping models are widely used in economics but are subject to finite sample bias. I show that the standard errors-in-variables estimator is exactly equivalent to the jackknife instrumental variables estimator and use this relationship to develop an estimator which, unlike the standard errors-in-variables estimator, is unbiased in finite samples. The theoretical results are demonstrated using Monte Carlo experiments. Finally, I implement a model…
The Spot Market Matters
Based on the methodology of Beaudry and DiNardo (1991) , this paper investigates the relative importance of the spot market and implicit contracts in the determination of British real wages. Empirical work is carried out separately for males and females with individual‐level data taken from the New Earnings Survey Panel for the years 1976–2001. In contrast to previous studies that used North American data, the spot market is found to be more impo…
A Preliminary Study on English and Welsh "Sacred Sites" and Home Dream Reports
This article discusses preliminary data on advancing what we know about "sacred sites" and their effects on dreaming. Thirty-five volunteers spent between one and five nights in one of four unfamiliar outdoor sacred sites in England and Wales. Another volunteer awakened them following the observation of rapid eye movement and asked for dream recall. The same volunteers monitored their own dreams in familiar home surroundings, keeping dream diarie…
Staying in the Classroom and Out of the Maternity Ward? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
This article investigates whether increasing mandatory educational attainment through compulsory schooling legislation encourages women to delay childbearing. We use variation induced by changes in compulsory schooling laws in both the US and Norway to estimate the effect in two very different institutional environments. We find evidence that increased compulsory schooling does in fact reduce the incidence of teenage childbearing in both the US a…
Interview with Professor Timothy Darvill
Improved Jive Estimators for Overidentified Linear Models with and without Heteroskedasticity
We introduce two simple new variants of the jackknife instrumental variables (JIVE) estimator for overidentified linear models and show that they are superior to the existing JIVE estimator, significantly improving on its small-sample-bias properties. We also compare our new estimators to existing Nagar (1959) type estimators. We show that, in models with heteroskedasticity, our estimators have superior properties to both the Nagar estimator and …
A Ceiling Painting in the Hal-Saflieni Hypogeum as Acoustically-Related Imagery
This preliminary paper examines the ceiling painting in the “Oracle Room” in the Neolithic Hal-Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta. Visual evidence is found of associations between the painted imagery and a wall niche possessing exceptional acoustic qualities, considered by some to have functioned as a “speaking tube” for oracular pronouncements. Varying interpretations of the nature of the niche and of the painting are sampled before the proposition is mad…
Inscribed Across the Landscape
(2009). Inscribed Across the Landscape: The Cursus Enigma. Time and Mind: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 237-241
Archaeology with Balls—Time Stands Still
(2009). Archaeology with Balls—Time Stands Still: New Light on Megalithic Science. Time and Mind: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 79-86
Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults
A variety of public campaigns, including the "Just Say No" campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to "Just Say No to Drugs", are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school peers on the long-run outcomes of teenagers. This is primarily due to two factors: the absence of information on peers merged with long-run outcomes of individuals…
Forced to be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain
Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates. Given that the first order source of bias in OLS is likely to be upward as more able individuals tend to obtain more education, such high estimates are usually rationalized as reflecting the fact that the group of individuals who are influenced by the law ch…
Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility
Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age
Stonehenge Rocks
Since 2007, the “Landscape & Perception” project, under the auspices of the Royal College of Art, has undertaken a series of field visits to Preseli and surrounding landscapes in southwest Wales conducting audio and visual mapping activities. On some of those field sessions, part of the research focused on the rocks along the Carn Menyn ridge, a claimed main source area of the Stonehenge bluestones in the Preseli hills. The specific interest was …
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