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How does working as a child affect wages, income, and poverty as an adult?
Ilahi, Nadeem; Orazem, Peter F.; Sedlacek, Guilherme Luis - In: Child labor and education in Latin America : an …, (pp. 87-101). 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857153
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Subsidizing vocational training for disadvantaged youth in developing countries : evidence from a randomized trial
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Kugler, Adriana D.; Meghir, Costas - 2009
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly offered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858877
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Economic freedom, human rights, and the returns to human capital : an evaluation of the Schultz hypothesis
King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, Claudio; Orazem, Peter F. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663988
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The role of teacher quality in retention and hiring : using applications-to-transfer to uncover preferences of teachers and schools
Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003967005
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Economic freedom, human rights, and the returns to human capital : an evaluation of the Schultz hypothesis
King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, Claudio; Orazem, Peter F. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003995171
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Do differences in school's instruction time explain international achievement gaps in math, science, and reading? : Evidence from developed and developing countries
Lavy, Victor - 2010
his proposed education reform for the US. In this paper, I estimate the effects of instructional time on students … are very similar across groups of developed and middle-income countries and age groups. Evidence from primary and middle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003995795
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Education choices in Mexico : using a structural model and a randomized experiment to evaluate Progresa
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Santiago, Ana - 2010
that is better suited to evaluate the program. We find that the program has a positive effect on the enrollment of children … neutral change in the program that would increase the grant for secondary school children while eliminating for the primary … school children would have a substantially larger effect on enrollment of the latter, while having minor effects on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008653555
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Economic freedom, human rights, and the returns to human capital : an evaluation of the Schultz Hypothesis
King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, Claudio; Orazem, Peter F. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661768
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Education, health and mortality : evidence from a social experiment
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Simeonova, Emilia - 2012
We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was implemented by municipalities between 1949 and 1962 as a social experiment and implied an extension of compulsory schooling from 7 or 8 years depending on municipality to 9 years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535837