Rita Ginja
Biographic Data
| ID | 5733103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Ginja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Ginja |
| SIGNATURE | GINJA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University and Uppsala Centre for Labor Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9608-5771 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach
Does access to free health insurance affect household labor supply decisions? We address this question by exploiting the 2002 introduction of universal health insurance in Mexico (Seguro Popular, SP) that broke the link between access to health care and job contract. Reducedform estimates show that SP increased informality among less educated families with children by 3.5%. We develop and estimate a household search model that incorporates the va…
Higher-Achievement Schools, Peers and Mental Health
Although many students suffer from anxiety and depression, and often identify school pressure and concerns about their futures as the main reasons for their worries, little is known about the consequences of the schooling environment on students’ mental health. Using a regression discontinuity analysis in the largest Norwegian cities, we show that eligibility to enrol in a higher-achievement high school increases the probability of enrolment in h…
Parental Leave Benefits, Household Labor Supply, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes
We study how parental leave benefit levels affect household labor supply, family income, and child outcomes, exploiting the speed premium (SP) in the Swedish leave system. The SP grants mothers higher benefits for a subsequent child without reestablishing eligibility through market work if two births occur within a prespecified interval. We use the spacing eligibility cutoffs in a regression discontinuity framework and find that the SP improves e…
Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile
We study a Chilean programme that combines home visits to households in extreme poverty with guaranteed access to social services. Its goal was to connect marginalised families to the social system to improve their living conditions. Programme impacts are identified using regression discontinuity exploring the fact that eligibility is a discontinuous function of an index of family income and assets. There is no evidence of short or long-term effe…
Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
This article studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income and an index of investments in children, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We find that there is partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks but the magnitude of the estimated responses is small. We cannot reject the hypothesis of full insur…
Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
This article studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income and an index of investments in children, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We find that there is partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks but the magnitude of the estimated responses is small. We cannot reject the hypothesis of full insur…
Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile
We study a Chilean programme that combines home visits to households in extreme poverty with guaranteed access to social services. Its goal was to connect marginalised families to the social system to improve their living conditions. Programme impacts are identified using regression discontinuity exploring the fact that eligibility is a discontinuous function of an index of family income and assets. There is no evidence of short or long-term effe…
Higher-Achievement Schools, Peers and Mental Health
Although many students suffer from anxiety and depression, and often identify school pressure and concerns about their futures as the main reasons for their worries, little is known about the consequences of the schooling environment on students’ mental health. Using a regression discontinuity analysis in the largest Norwegian cities, we show that eligibility to enrol in a higher-achievement high school increases the probability of enrolment in h…
Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
This article studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income and an index of investments in children, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We find that there is partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks but the magnitude of the estimated responses is small. We cannot reject the hypothesis of full insur…
Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile
We study a Chilean programme that combines home visits to households in extreme poverty with guaranteed access to social services. Its goal was to connect marginalised families to the social system to improve their living conditions. Programme impacts are identified using regression discontinuity exploring the fact that eligibility is a discontinuous function of an index of family income and assets. There is no evidence of short or long-term effe…
Parental Leave Benefits, Household Labor Supply, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes
We study how parental leave benefit levels affect household labor supply, family income, and child outcomes, exploiting the speed premium (SP) in the Swedish leave system. The SP grants mothers higher benefits for a subsequent child without reestablishing eligibility through market work if two births occur within a prespecified interval. We use the spacing eligibility cutoffs in a regression discontinuity framework and find that the SP improves e…
Higher-Achievement Schools, Peers and Mental Health
Although many students suffer from anxiety and depression, and often identify school pressure and concerns about their futures as the main reasons for their worries, little is known about the consequences of the schooling environment on students’ mental health. Using a regression discontinuity analysis in the largest Norwegian cities, we show that eligibility to enrol in a higher-achievement high school increases the probability of enrolment in h…
The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach
Does access to free health insurance affect household labor supply decisions? We address this question by exploiting the 2002 introduction of universal health insurance in Mexico (Seguro Popular, SP) that broke the link between access to health care and job contract. Reducedform estimates show that SP increased informality among less educated families with children by 3.5%. We develop and estimate a household search model that incorporates the va…
Economics (4 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Regression discontinuity design (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (2 works) · Actuarial science (1 works) · Anxiety (1 works)