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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
Cattaneo, Alejandra; Lalive, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or parents learn from other parents about … the ability of their children. Identification is based on a randomized intervention that grants a cash subsidy encouraging … school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …
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The Effect of High School Matriculation Awards: Evidence from Randomized Trials
Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
In Israel, as in many other countries, a high school matriculation certificate is required by universities and some jobs. In spite of the certificate’s value, Israeli society is marked by vast differences in matriculation rates by region and socioeconomic status. We attempted to increase the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136481
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Paying for Performance: The Effect of Teachers' Financial Incentives on Students' Scholastic Outcomes
Lavy, Victor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Performance-related pay for teachers is being introduced in many countries, but there is little evaluation to date on the effects of such programmes. This Paper evaluates a particular incentive experiment. The incentive program is a rank-order tournament among teachers of English, Hebrew, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656135
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Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children’s age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …
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Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience
Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even after … controlling for several individual and family-level characteristics. …
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Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work and Fertility
Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We study the effect of culture on important economic outcomes by using the 1970 Census to examine the work and fertility behaviour of women 30-40 years old, born in the US, but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labour force participation and total fertility rates from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114141
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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: The Rise in Premarital Sex and its Destigmitization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …
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Daycare Subsidies and Labor Supply in Sweden
Gustafsson, Siv; Stafford, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
The provision of subsidized child care may encourage women to participate in the paid labor force. This paper analyzes the effects of the price and availability of subsidized child care on labor force participation, using data from a Swedish household survey for 1984 in combination with data on...
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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program
Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world’s largest community-based development program--China’s flagship poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory village planning. We use matching methods and...
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Migration, Congestion Externalities, and the Evaluation of Spatial Investments
Dinkelman, Taryn; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Evaluations of new infrastructure in developing countries typically focus on direct effects, such as the impact of an electrifification program on household energy use. But if new infrastructure induces people to move into an area, other local publicly provided goods may become congested,...
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