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Adapting the Supply of Education to the Needs of Girls: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Rural India

Meller, Marian; Litschig, Stephan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

that the program led to an enrollment gain of about 6-7 percentage points for girls in upper primary school. Evidence of an … enrollment gain for boys is tentative. Available evidence on mechanisms suggests that the program improved girl-friendly school … infrastructure and services, as well as gender-neutral school resources. …

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Immigration and the School System

Albornoz, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

model of family immigration in a frame- work where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This … selection. Also, we can study the effect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self …

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Human capital in a global and knowledge-based economy

Fuente, Angel de la; Ciccone, Antonio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

This document is a report prepared for for the DG for Employment and Social Affairs of the European Commission. It surveys the available evidence on the contribution of investment in human capital to aggregate productivity growth and on its impact on wages and other labour outcomes at the...

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Longer-term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States

Rodríquez-Planas, Núria - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

employment impacts of an afterschool program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and … financial rewards with the objective to improve high-school graduation and postsecondary schooling enrollment. The short …

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Human Capital in a global and knowledge-based economy, part II: assessment at the EU country level

Fuente, Angel de la - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

This report is an extension and partial update of de la Fuente and Ciccone (2002). It constructs estimates of the private and social rates of return on schooling for fourteen EU countries using microeconometric estimates of Mincerian wage equations, the results of crosscountry growth regressions...

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Mentoring, Educational Services, and Economic Incentives Longer-term Evidence on Risky Behaviors from a Randomized Trial

Rodriguez-Planas, Núria - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

afterschool program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards to attend … program activities, complete high-school and enroll in post-secondary education on youths engagement in risky behaviors, such …

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Democracy and the curse of natural resources

Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

, in countries with weak institutions. Natural resources may be bad for democracy by harming political turnover. Our model … also suggests a non-linear dependence of human capital on natural resources. For low levels of democracy human capital … depends negatively on natural resources, while for high levels of democracy the dependence is reversed. This theoretical …

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The Economic Value of Reciprocal Bilingualism

Caminal, Ramon - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

Some bilingual societies exhibit a distribution of language skills that can- not be explained by economic theories that portray languages as pure communication devices. Such distribution of skills are typically the result of public policies that promote bilingualism among members of both speech...

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Educational Opportunity and Income Inequality

Hendel, Igal; Shapiro, Joel; Willen, Paul - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

Since World War II, the United States government has made improved access to higher education a priority. This effort has substantially increased the number of people who complete college - generally thought to be a good thing. We show, however, that such policies can actually increase income...

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Which Club Should I Attend, Dad?: Targeted Socialization and Production

Albornoz, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

We study a model that integrates productive and socialization efforts with network choice and parental investments. We characterize the unique symmetric equilibrium of this game. We first show that individuals underinvest in productive and social effort, but that solving only the investment...

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