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Risk Aversion and Schooling Decisions
Belzil, Christian; Leonardi, Marco - HAL - 2007
risk aversion on the probability of entering higher education. This allows us to characterize the subjective (as opposed to … the objective) effect of higher education on marginal risk exposure. Because the measure of risk aversion (the classical … (comparable to parents' educational background) of the decisions to enter higher education. Precisely, risk aversion acts as a …
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International Migration of Couples
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
. College education of either partner makes couples more, and having children makes couples less mobile. Power couples are most …
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Much Ado about Nothing…Budget for Children a Mere Lip Service! India Fails to Protect its Children Once Again
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2013
Share of Dudget for Children in the Union Budget. [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%20Analysis%202013-14-1.pdf]
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Elections 2014: What Do the Manifestos of Political Parties Promise Children?
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2014
A quick look at the manifestos of the five national political parties, Indian National Congress (INC), Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), Aam Admi Party (AAP), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) and Samajwadi Party (SP) that most of them, barring the CPIM (Marxist) pay little attention to...
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Child Focussed Questions in Parliament in 2012
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2013
One third of the population of India are children below the age of 18 years. They are citizens of this country. Even though they do not vote, they have all rights as equal citizens of the country. How concerned are our parliamentarians about them- after all they represent them too. [HAQCRC].
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Self-Selection and Earnings of Emigrants from a Welfare State
Poutvaara, Panu; Munk, Martin D.; Junge, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Following a seminal contribution by Borjas (1987), a large literature has analyzed how income distribution and redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the...
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Budget for Children (BfC) in the Union Budget 2012-13
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2012
What the Budget of India, 2012-13 has got for children? [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13_0.pdf].
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Twenty Years of CRC: A Balance Sheet- Volume 1
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2011
The report is a rich source with qualitative and quantitative data on the status of children in India from authentic and established sources. [HAQCRC report]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/CRC20BS_Vol%20I_1.pdf].
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Brand India: No Equity for Children
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2011
India has embarked upon an economic model driven by the free market incorporating processes of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. Our children today live, in what some describe as “Brand India†which has the tenth highest GDP in the world. Even while the country is...
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What Is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers
Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs … have lower incomes. We also analyze those who changed careers. Those with higher level of education are more likely to …
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