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Benefits to elite schools and the formation of expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City

Estrada, Ricardo; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2014

We study the effects of admission into elite public high schools in Mexico City on students' expected earnings, arguing these effects provide an indication of the value-added those schools produce. Using data for the centralized and exam-based allocation of students into schools and an adapted...

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Returns to Education and Education-Occupation Mismatch within a Transition Economy. Empirical Analysis for the Russian Federation

Kyui, Natalia - HAL - 2010

This paper makes a thorough analysis of the returns to tertiary education and education-occupation matches within a transition economy and compares these returns to similar returns in a developed economy. This study shows through the example of the Russian Federation that the increase in the...

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The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models: A Survey

Belzil, Christian - HAL - 2006

This papers contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structural framework. I present a historical perspective on the evolution of the literature, from early static models set in a selectivity framework (Willis and Rosen, 1979) to the recent...

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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - HAL - 2004

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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Testing the Specification of the Mincer Wage Equation

Belzil, Christian - HAL - 2006

Using panel data taken from the NLSY, I perform the joint estimation of i) a reduced-form dynamic model of the transition from one grade level to the next with observed and unobserved heterogeneity, and ii) a flexible version of the celebrated Mincerian wage equation with skill heterogeneity,...

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Why is the gender wage gap in Japan so large compared with France? : a comparison based on decomposition analysis

Hori, Haruhiko; Nohara, Hiroatsu - HAL - 2006

markets in Japan and France. When it comes to the gender wage gaps, it is necessary to take the general structure of wages and … for the the gender wage gap differentials between the two countries. Factor decomposition analysis focusing on full …

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Eliciting preferences on multiattribute societies with a Choquet integral

MEYER, Patrick; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2008

This paper aims at reexamining the construction of indicators of standards of living, by focussing on the challenges raised by the subjectivity and the multidimensionality of living conditions. For that purpose, we propose to apply Choquet integral-based multiattribute value theory to the...

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Female Access to Credit in France: How Microfinance Institutions Import Disparate Treatment from Banks

Cozarenco, Anastasia; Szafarz, Ariane - HAL - 2013

period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The … results suggest that co-financing leads the originally gender-neutral MFI to import disparate treatment from mainstream banks. …

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Approved routes and alternative paths: the construction of women's rarity in large accounting firms. Evidence from the Big Four France

Lupu, Ioana - HAL - 2011

Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in …

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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2011

the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …

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