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Locust infestations and individual school dropout : evidence from Africa
Asare, Abigail O.; Dannemann, Bernhard Christopher; … - 2023 - This Version: February 2023
This paper examines the effect of desert locust infestations on school enrollment of children and young adults between 3 and 24 years of age. We combine individual and household survey data from the 2005-2019 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program with data on the spatial distribution of...
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Does technology in schools affect repetition, dropout and enrollment? : evidence from Peru
Cristia, Julian; Czerwonko, Alejo; Garofalo, Pablo - 2014
Many developing countries are allocating significant resources to expanding technology access in schools. Whether these investments will translate into measurable educational improvements remains an open question because of the limited evidence available. This paper contributes to filling that...
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Learning loss and student dropouts during the COVID-19 pandemic : a review of the evidence two years after schools shut down
Moscoviz, Laura; Evans, David K. - 2022
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Partisanship and survey refusal
Borgschulte, Mark; Cho, Heepyung; Lubotsky, Darren - 2022
Response rates to important surveys used in social science research have been falling precipitously over the last few decades, raising questions about the representativeness of the resulting data and the quality of evidence that comes from it. We examine how partisan preferences influence...
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The CPS citizenship question and survey refusals : causal and semi-causal evidence featuring a two-stage regression discontinuity design
Bernhardt, Robert; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2020
The unsuccessful attempt to add a citizenship question to the Census has drawn attention to citizenship questions on other surveys. Simultaneously, researchers have noted a recent increase in Current Population Survey non-response. We combine these topics, studying the effect of the CPS...
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Reconciling occupational mobility in the Current Population Survey
Vom Lehn, Christian; Ellsworth, Cache; Kroff, Zachary - 2020
Measuring occupational mobility from the Current Population Survey using recall (retrospective) or linked panel responses (longitudinal) generates substantially different outcomes, both in levels and trends. Using a generalized method of moments technique, we estimate the actual level of...
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Are labor market indicators telling the truth? : role of measurement error in the U.S. current population survey
Shibata, Ippei - 2019
Labor market indicators are critical for policymakers, but measurement error in labor force survey data is known to be substantial. In this paper, I quantify the implications of classification errors in the U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS), in which respondents misreport their true labor...
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Mandatory volunteer work as fair reciprocity for unemployment and social benefits?
Veldboer, Lex; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015
)fairness of 'mandatory volunteering'. This small exploratory study aims to reveal the perceptions of female participants in … mandatory volunteering programmes and to formulate directions for further research. We analyse how in Rotterdam the transition … were already volunteering. Surprisingly, they claim that the new approach better recognises their contribution to 'society …
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Are public sector workers different? : cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...
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Volunteering and the state
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual?s decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
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