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Inequality and Income Distribution in Georgia

Yemtsov, Ruslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

In the period of macroeconomic crisis in Georgia between 1991 and 1994 the combination of hyperinflation, catastrophic output drop and weak governance, have led to a sharp rise in inequality among households. Sharp inequities have arisen not only between households, but also between regions....

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Labor Markets, Inequality and Poverty in Georgia

Yemtsov, Ruslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …

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Multidimensional Targeting and Evaluation: A General Framework with an Application to a Poverty Program in Bangladesh

Robano, Virginia; Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

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Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings

Gensowski, Miriam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth, but how do they realize their full potential? In this paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their education and personality traits. I identify a previously...

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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments

Eisenhauer, Philipp; Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...

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Returns to University Quality in Australia: A Two-Stage Analysis

Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This study investigates the relationship between university quality and graduate starting salaries using pooled Australian data from the Graduate Destination survey and a two-stage estimation methodology. The results suggest that average starting salaries for young undergraduates differ...

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Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?

Chevalier, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper estimates the financial returns to higher education quality in the UK. To account for the selectivity of students to institution, we rely on a selection on observable assumptions. We use several estimates including the Generalised Propensity Score of Hirano and Imbens, which relies on...

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Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Schooling Reform

Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the...

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Within and Between Gender Disparities in Income and Education Benefits from Democracy

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration of the benefits in subgroups of the population is unknown. In this paper, the question of differential welfare impacts, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is...

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Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap

Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We investigate the degree to which there is under-investment in human capital, and...

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