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Long Term Effects of Preschool Investment on school Performance and Labor Market Outcome
Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 2003
Using the NLSY data set, this paper formulates and then empirically estimates the production processes for social, motivational and cognitive skills during early childhood development and the long-term effects of these skills on learning and life-time earnings of an individual. Using these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076552
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Within-the-family education and its impact on equality
Nordblom, Katarina - EconWPA - 2001
This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125917
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Does the Choice of University Matter? A Study of the Differences across UK Universites in Life Sciences Students' Degree Performance
Bratti, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2001
This paper investigates differences across UK universities in 1993 life sciences students' degree performance using individual-level data from the Universities' Statistical Record (USR). Differences across universities are analysed by specifying and estimating a subject- specific educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413017
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The e ect of financial rewards on students achievement: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Klaauw, Bas van der - EconWPA - 2004
This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing the first year requirements within one year. Participants were assigned to a high, low and zero (control) reward...
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New evidence on the effect of time in school on early achievement
Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - EconWPA - 2004
This study estimates the effect of expanding enrollment possibilities in early eduction on the achievement of young children. To do so it exploits two features of the Dutch schooling system. First, children are allowed to enroll in school on their fourth birthday. Second, children having their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561531
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"Optimum Population -- A New Look: A Hamiltonian Approach Towards A Dynamic Analysis"
Bokhari, Farasat; McCarthy, George W. - EconWPA - 1996
The current optimum population models found in economic literature define static optimum population used in forming policy i.e. at a given instant what should be the optimum number of people in a (closed) economy. We believe that although this definition is useful, it is very limiting as far as...
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A new paradigm of economic regulation
Svetlov, Nikolai - EconWPA - 2003
making use of endogenous nature of preferences is suggested that is aimed at eliminating risks of terminating being of a … disseminating information about admissible values of strategical commodities, allowing a society to form such preferences of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556578
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Unidimensional Voting and Multidimensional Issues: The Role of Interest Groups
Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1996
Voting on unidimensional issues will produce equilibrium outcomes if voter preferences are single peaked. While the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556972
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Preferences, Choices, and Satisfaction in a Bargaining Game
Amborino, Angela; Lanteri, Alessandro; Novarese, Marco - EconWPA - 2005
individual preferences may help predicting towards which solutions players will converge, at least in a social setting, and … instead on the final payoff and not on its relation to preferences or satisfaction, which are deemed non-measurable. On the … contrary, this work has shown that consistent data emerge by simply asking players to express preferences and satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118521
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Instrument Choice and the Returns to Education: New Evidence from Vietnam
Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Béatrice; Gyselinck, Paul - EconWPA - 2005
This paper focuses on instrument choice while consistently estimating the returns to education in Vietnam. Using data culled from the 2 rounds of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey (VLSS), we explore different sets of exogenous instruments that rely on demand and supply side sources of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076522