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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
programme increased school participation of 14 to 17 year old children quite substantially, by between 5 and 7 percentage points …, and had lower, but non-negligible effects on enrolment of younger children of between around 1.5 and 2.5 percentage points …. In terms of work, the effects are generally largest for younger children whose participation in domestic work decreased …
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Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
problems and obesity of male children at ages 12 and 13. It also lowers depression and obesity among adolescents, and reduces …
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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform
Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661484
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Land Reforms and Economic Development
Gersbach, Hans; Siemers, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
redistributions enables the beneficiaries to educate their children and thus to escape from poverty and to overcome child labour. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661874
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How have Europeans Grown so Tall?
Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Increases in human stature are seen as a key indicator of improvement in the average health of populations. The literature associates stature with a variety of socioeconomic variables, and much of the focus is on the nineteenth century and on the last 50 years. In this paper I present and...
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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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Mozart or Pelé? The effects of teenagers’ participation in music and sports
Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children from more highly educated families, doing sports improves …’ leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared …
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Long-run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market … their own level of sports activities are tackled by combining informative data and flexible semiparametric estimation … methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data. The paper shows that sports activities have sizeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662093
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Naming & Shaming: The impacts of different regimes on hospital waiting times in England and Wales
Besley, Timothy J.; Bevan, Gwyn; Burchardi, Konrad B. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Improving accountability in public services has been a central objective of many public sector reforms in recent years. Chief among these have been efforts to generate observable performance measures as a basis for monitoring performance. This paper examines a natural experiment in regimes...
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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