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Saving Lives: Evidence from a Conditional Food Supplementation Program

Meller, Marian; Litschig, Stephan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

Many governments in developing countries implement programs that aim to address nutrional failures in early childhood, yet credible evidence on the effectiveness of these interventions is scant. This paper evaluates the impact of a large-scale, government-run, food fortification program on child...

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Government Spending and Re-election: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Litschig, Stephan; Morrison, Kevin - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

Does additional government spending improve the electoral chances of incumbent political parties? This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on this question. Our research design exploits discontinuities in federal funding to local governments in Brazil around several population...

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The Long-run and Intergenerational Education Impacts of Intergovernmental Transfers

Filho, Irineu de Carvalho; Litschig, Stephan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

This paper provides regression discontinuity evidence on long-run and intergenerational education impacts of a temporary increase in federal transfers to local governments in Brazil. Revenues and expenditures of the communities benefiting from extra transfers temporarily increased by about 20%...

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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit

González, Libertad - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …-being through their impact on maternal time at home and family stability. …

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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

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a large-scale government initiative (NPEGEL/KGBV) that provided earmarked funds for addressing girls' special needs to public schools in rural India. Our empirical strategy exploits local variation in program eligibility around a threshold based on the...

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Competitive Equilibrium from Equal Incomes for Two-Sided Matching

He, Yinghua; Miralles, Antonio; Yan, Jianye - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

Using the assignment of students to schools as our leading example, we study many-to-one two-sided matching markets without transfers. Students are endowed with cardinal preferences and schools with ordinal ones, while preferences of both sides need not be strict. Using the idea of a competitive...

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The Role of Awareness, Information Gathering and Processing in School Choice

Azmat, Ghazala; Montalvo, José G. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

This paper studies the determinants of school choice, focusing on the role of information. We consider how parents’ search efforts and their capacity to process information (i.e., to correctly assess schools) affect the quality of the schools they choose for their children. Using a novel...

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Welfare of Naive and Sophisticated Players in School Choice

Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel Angel - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

Two main school choice mechanisms have attracted the attention in the literature: Boston and deferred acceptance (DA). The question arises on the ex-ante welfare implications when the game is played by participants that vary in terms of their strategic sophistication. Abdulkadiroglu, Che and...

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Constrained School Choice

Haeringer, Guillaume; Klijn, Flip - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2008

Recently, several school districts in the US have adopted or consider adopting the Student-Optimal Stable mechanism or the Top Trading Cycles mechanism to assign children to public schools. There is evidence that for school districts that employ (variants of) the so-called Boston mechanism the...

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Constrained School Choice: An Experimental Study

Calsamiglia, Caterina; Haeringer, Guillaume; Klijn, Flip - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2008

The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be assigned to. However, in many real-life instances families are only allowed to submit a list containing a limited number of schools. Subjects incentives are drastically...

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