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Child Education and Work Choices in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Fitzsimons, Emla; Gomez, Ana; Lopez, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a quasi-experimental approach, our methodology makes use of an interesting feature of the data, which allows us...

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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents

Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioural problems … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional … may transmit the effect of maternal education to the child, including family environment and parental investments at …

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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the country’s education budget. We find large positive effects on test …

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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

partly a result of a rise in occupational segregation and partly the general rise in wage inequality. Policies to reduce the …

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Wages, Experience and Seniority

Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper develops and estimates a human capital model of wage growth based on learning by doing. Learning by doing rates are assumed to be heterogeneous and firms offer different career structures in terms of the rate of acquisition of firm specific human capital. The model is estimated using...

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Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds

Blundell, Richard William; Gosling, Amanda; Ichimura, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

convincing evidence of an increase in inequality within education groups, changes in the ‘return’ to education and increases in …

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...

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The long-term effects of job search requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA reform.

Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for eligibility and in the related administrative hurdle. Search theory predicts that such changes should raise...

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