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Finance and Poverty: Evidence from India
Ayyagari, Meghana; Beck, Thorsten; Hoseini, Mohammad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
. This suggests that financial deepening contributed to poverty alleviation in rural areas by fostering entrepreneurship and …
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Entrepreneurship, State Economic Development Policy, and the Entrepreneurial University
Audretsch, David B; Phillips, Ronnie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
entrepreneurship into state economic development and incubate entrepreneurial companies. Regional entrepreneurship policy is a new … growing new businesses. Specifically, we believe that an entrepreneurial higher education system is a key to state … with the needs and expertise of private industry to accelerate entrepreneurship and economic growth. …
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Does Local Financial Development Matter?
Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We study the effects of differences in local financial development within an integrated financial market. To do so, we construct a new indicator of financial development by estimating a regional effect on the probability that, ceteris paribus, a household is shut off from the credit market. By...
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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …
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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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College Diversity and Investment Incentives
Gall, Thomas; Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies the aggregate economic effects of diversity policies such as affirmative action in college admission. If agents are constrained in the side payments they can make, the free market allocation displays excessive segregation relative to the first-best. Affirmative action policies...
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Schooling and Youth Mortality: Learning from a Mass Military Exemption
Cipollone, Piero; Rosolia, Alfonso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several …
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Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
and the effect is larger where siblings are close in age and for women from low resource households. …
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Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...
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The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration: Causal Evidence from Micro-data
Hjalmarsson, Randi; Holmlund, Helena; Lindquist, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth …
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