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Parental education and children's schooling outcomes : Is the effect nature, nurture, or both? Evidence from recomposed families in Rwanda
Walque, Damien de - 2005
"Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature … parents and the type of relationship that links the children to their 'adoptive 'families. The results of the analysis suggest …, more nurture, or both? De Walque uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522715
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Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2009
surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394183
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Schooling and labor market impacts of a natural policy experiment
Sakellariou, Chris N. - 2004
"Patrinos and Sakellariou use a nationally representative household survey to estimate returns to schooling in Venezuela from instrumental variables based on a supply-side intervention in the education market. These estimates apply to a subgroup of liquidity-constrained individuals, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522875
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Fachserie / 3 / 2 / 1 / 7
Deutschland <Bundesrepublik> / Statistisches Bundesamt - Stuttgart : Metzler-Poeschel; 1975-1985: Stuttgart : … - 1975(1979) - 1987(1989)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000352553
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Fachserie / 3 / 2 / 1 / 4
Deutschland <Bundesrepublik> / Statistisches Bundesamt - Stuttgart : Metzler-Poeschel; 1979-1988: Stuttgart : … - 1975(1979) - 1987(1989)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000359476
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Preise, Löhne, Wirtschaftsrechnungen / 13 / 2
Deutschland <Bundesrepublik> / Statistisches Bundesamt - Stuttgart - 1952/54=1954(1955); 1955/56(1957) - 1957/58(1959); …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000426755
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Minimum Wage and Tax Evasion: Theory and Evidence
Tonin, Mirco - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
bysome agents, thus reducing their disposable income. The comparison of food consumptionand of the consumption-income gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360528
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Social Support Shopping: Evidence from a RegressionDiscontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform
Borghans, Lex; Gielen, Anne C.; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
This paper examines how a change in the generosity of one social assistance programgenerates spillovers onto other social assistance programs. We exploit an age discontinuityin the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to estimate the causal effect of exit fromdisability insurance (DI)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360555
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Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec:A Microeconomic Approach
Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Pinard, Dominique - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the size and the growth of Quebec’sunderground economy, and the corresponding loss of taxes for the government. Ourapproach is based on a method developed by Pissarides and Weber (1989) and extended byLyssiotou et al. (2004). The basic hypothesis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360563
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Bringing Financial Literacy and Education toLow and Middle Income Countries: The Need toReview, Adjust, and Extend Current Wisdom
Holzmann, Robert - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
the lessons ofhigh-income countries with financial literacy programs and the deviating characteristics of lowand middle … income countries. While progress has been made in high-income countries tomeasure financial capability, there is little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360585