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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform

Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - CESifo - 2013

This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...

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The Effect of High School Matriculation Awards: Evidence from Randomized Trials

Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In Israel, as in many other countries, a high school matriculation certificate is required by universities and some jobs. In spite of the certificate’s value, Israeli society is marked by vast differences in matriculation rates by region and socioeconomic status. We attempted to increase the...

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Targeted Remedial Education for Underperforming Teenagers: Costs and Benefits

Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

There is renewed interest in ways to enhance secondary education, especially among disadvantaged students. This study evaluates the short-term effects of a remedial education programme that provided additional instruction to under-performing high school students in Israel. The programme targeted...

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Paying for Performance: The Effect of Teachers' Financial Incentives on Students' Scholastic Outcomes

Lavy, Victor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Performance-related pay for teachers is being introduced in many countries, but there is little evaluation to date on the effects of such programmes. This Paper evaluates a particular incentive experiment. The incentive program is a rank-order tournament among teachers of English, Hebrew, and...

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Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Gould, Eric D; Lavy, Victor; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper uses the mass migration wave to Israel in the 1990s to examine the impact of immigrant concentration during elementary school on the long-term academic outcomes of native students in high school. To identify the causal effect of immigrant children on their native peers, the empirical...

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Immigrating to Opportunity: Estimating the Effect of School Quality Using a Natural Experiment on Ethiopians in Israel

Gould, Eric D; Lavy, Victor; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

In May 1991, 15,000 Ethiopian Jews were brought to Israel in an overnight airlift and sorted in a haphazard and essentially random fashion to absorption centres across the country. This quasi-random assignment produced a natural experiment whereby the initial schooling environment of Ethiopian...

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Carl Menger and Friedrich von Wieser on the role of knowledge and beliefs

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2012

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Knowledge and individual behaviour in the Austrian tradition of business cycles: von Mises vs. Hayek

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2003

in Mises and Hayek's explanations of the different hases of the trade cycle, by underlying the role played by knowledge …

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Macroeconomic analysis and individual economic rationality: some lessons from Wicksell to Schumpeter and von Mises

Arena, Richard; Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2005

The purpose of this contribution is to investigate the problem of the room attributed to individual economic rationality by circulation approaches. Our investigation will not privilege however the modern contributions of this approach but will instead utilize the works of some economists of the...

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Introduction

Arena, Richard; Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2006

This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as … perspective on the meaning, as well as the role, of knowledge and beliefs in economics in the future. Possible lines of future … action are discussed.A platform for future research and investigation into the role of knowledge and beliefs in economics …

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