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IMPACTO DE LOS INCENTIVOS PÚBLICOS EN EDUCACIÓN SOBRE LA PARTICIPACIÓN LABORAL DE LOS TRABAJADORES EN COLOMBIA

Villa, Juan Miguel - EconWPA - 2005

Los estudios empíricos que tratan sobre la participación laboral en Colombia muestran que épocas de poco crecimiento económico o recesión aumenta el número de trabajadores secundarios (niños o amas de casa) que deciden ofrecer su fuerza de trabajo. Los hogares más vulnerables a esta...

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Understanding the Effects of Sibling Composition on Child

Makepeace, Gerald; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

This paper argues that spacing between consecutive births is an important aspect of competition among siblings for survival. Since parents simultaneously choose their desired values of birth spacing and the amount of time and other resources invested in children (which in turn affect child...

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How Much of the Gender Difference in Child School Enrolment Can Be Explained? Evidence from Rural India

Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2003

There are significant gender differences in child schooling in the Indian states though very few studies explain this … gender difference. Unlike most existing studies we take account of the implicit and explicit opportunity costs of schooling … enrolment of boys and girls, other arguments tend to explain a part of the observed gender difference. Even after taking account …

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Student time allocation and educational production functions

Bratti, Massimiliano; Staffolani, Stefano - EconWPA - 2002

In this paper we aim to remedy some shortcomings in the economic literature on university student absenteeism and academic performance. We start by introducing a simple theoretical model in which students decide the optimal allocation of their time between lecture attendance, self-study and...

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The Dynamic Cost of Draft

Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - EconWPA - 2002

We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model with human capital accumulation to evaluate the economic consequences of compulsory services (such as military draft or social services). Our analysis identifies a so far ignored dynamic cost arising from distortions in time allocation over the...

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Education, Labour Supply and Market Development in Rural Peru

Laszlo, Sonia - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the channels through which education affects household earnings in environments where wages are unobserved. Utilizing data from rural Peru, the empirical strategy decomposes the earnings returns to education into various wage-dependent and labour supply parameters. Geographic...

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Social ties within school classes –- the roles of gender, ethnicity, and having older siblings

Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Kooreman, Peter - EconWPA - 2005

background characteristics, like gender, ethnicity, and having older siblings. The resulting model with endogenous interactions … are able identify trends in social relationships of teenagers. We find that the roles that gender and ethnicity play in …

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Food Expenditure, Food Preparation Time and Household Economies of Scale

Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2004

This paper is concerned with the effect of household size on the allocation of household money and time to food consumption. A broad literature has examined household economies of scale. Since food is a private good, it might be expected that larger households, which could economize on shared...

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Women, Microfinance, and Savings: Lessons and Proposals

Vonderlack, Rebecca; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services...

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Group versus individual discrimination among young workers: a distributional approach

Favaro, Donata; Magrini, Stefano - EconWPA - 2005

We evaluate the gender wage gap and the unexplained gender wage differential for workers 15-29 year old during the … endogeneity of education and we evaluate gender discrimination by studying the entire distribution of the unexplained wage gap as …

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