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Trade-Offs between Different Early Childhood Interventions : Evidence from Ecuador

Rosero, Jose; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011

children and mothers in Ecuador. We find that home visits are beneficial for children's cognitive outcomes and health and for …

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Voluntary Participation and Intergenerational Risk Sharing in a Funded Pension System

Beetsma, Roel; Romp, Ward; Vos, Siert J. - 2011

We explore the feasibility of a funded pension system with intergenerational risk sharing when participation in the system is voluntary. Typically, the willingness of the young to participate depends on their belief about the future young's willingness to do so. We characterise equilibria with...

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Participation Constraints in Pension Systems

Beetsma, Roel; Romp, Ward - 2013

We explore voluntary participation in pension arrangements. Individuals only participate when participation is more attractive than autarky. The bene??it of participation is that risks can be shared with future generations. We apply our analysis to a pay-as-you-go system, a funded system without...

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A New Approach to estimate the Wage Returns to Work-related Training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2002

This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training.The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration theworkers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some randomevent. The point estimate of the return to...

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Using admission lotteries to estimate heterogeneous effects of elite schools

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ruijs, Nienke; de Wolf, Inge - 2020

negative effects on achievement of students who just qualify for the highest academic track and positive effects on achievement … of students from the top of the baseline ability distribution. These results reconcile contrasting findings from previous …

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The (un)importance of school assignment

Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023

engagement, having friends, and students' personality. It seems therefore that the concerns that parents of lottery losers …, attitudes towards school, awareness of parents, behavior inside school, behavior outside school, school satisfaction, civic … express about their children's school assignment are based on the characteristics of schools, teachers and peers and not on …

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The ABC of Housing Strategies: Are Housing Assistance Programs Effective in Enhancing Children's Well Being?

Rosero, Jose - 2012

This paper examines the effect of a housing assistance program on school enrollment, child labor and poverty reduction among poor families in Ecuador. Administrative data is merged to a household panel to link the history of a voucher application with socioeconomic information. Two empirical...

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