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Gender Peer Effects in School, a Birth Cohort Approach
Ciccone, Antonio; Garcia-Fontes, Walter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We propose estimating gender peer effects in school by exploiting within-school variation in gender composition across …
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The French Zones D'Education Prioritaire: Much Ado About Nothing?
Bénabou, Roland; Kramarz, Francis; Prost, Corinne - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
teaching hours) and key establishments characteristics such as class sizes, school enrolments, teachers’ qualifications and …
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Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital and Optimal Education Policy
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper studies the design of education policies in a setting of successive generations with heterogeneous individuals (high and low earning ability). Parents’ investment in education is motivated by warm-glow altruism and determines the probability that a child has high ability. Education...
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Self-Enforcing Intergenerational Transfers and the Provision of Education
Anderberg, Dan; Balestrino, Alessandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Due to the presence of borrowing constraints in the market, the cost of educating the young members of a family is often borne by the adults. We consider intrafamily financing of human capital under the assumptions that individuals are selfish and binding contracts are not feasible. Cooperation...
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Affirmative Action and Efficiency in Education
De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper studies the optimal education policy in the presence of different groups of households, with groups differing in the distribution of the ability to benefit from education. The main result is that the high ability individuals from groups with relatively few high ability individuals...
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A Policy Insight into the R&D-Patent Relationship
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan; van Pottelsberghe de la … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper investigates whether patent counts can be taken as indicators of macroeconomic innovation performance. The empirical model explicitly accounts for the two components of patenting output: research productivity and patent propensity. The empirical analysis aims at explaining the...
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Diversity and Trade
Grossman, Gene; Maggi, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
We develop a competitive model of trade between countries with similar aggregate factor endowments. The trade pattern reflects differences in the distribution of talent across the labour forces of the two countries. The country with a relatively homogeneous population exports the good produced...
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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 marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government’s HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...
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The Democratic Transition
Murtin, Fabrice; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this … democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 … to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with rising levels of democracy. We find that primary schooling, and …
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Inequality, Development, and the Stability of Democracy -Lipset and Three Critical Junctures in German History
Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
there exists a distribution of resources such that democracy emerges in equilibrium, but there are distributions of … resources for which democracy is infeasible in equilibrium irrespective of the level of development. The model also delivers … results on the stability of democracy with regard to changes in the economic and demographic environment. The results are …
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