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The Polish Growth Miracle: Outcome of Persistent Reform Efforts

Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

of Polish policy makers to pursue economic and administrative reforms in spite of short-run costs to large sections of …

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Private Tutoring: Evidence from India

Azam, Mehtabul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Drawing on the nationally representative "Participation and Expenditure in Education" surveys, we document the incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last two decades in India. As private tutoring involve two decisions: a) whether to take private tuition...

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Satisfaction with Democracy and the Environment in Western Europe: A Panel Analysis

Wagner, Alexander F.; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax, where (2) government expenditures on the environment are higher, where (3 …

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How Policy Changes Affect Shareholder Wealth: The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

Betzer, André; Doumet, Markus; Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which involved the immediate shutdown of almost half of Germany’s nuclear reactors while...

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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure

Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, Aydogan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing countries, environmental regulations are rare and the...

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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to 600000 mothers during...

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Nature, Nurture and Egalitarian Policy: What Can We Learn from Molecular Genetics?

Lundborg, Petter; Stenberg, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

gene-environment interaction effects. This literature points out specific policy areas which may compensate individuals …

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Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James; Navarro, Salvador - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of variability in returns to schooling is...

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Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decision to Bear Children? Evidence from East and West Germany

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Although economic agents routinely face various types of economic uncertainty, their effects are often unclear and hard … to assess, in part due to the absence of suitable measures of uncertainty. Because of the numerous and very substantial … their periods of uncertainty, moreover, these countries have experienced sharply falling fertility rates. Some have argued …

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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

earnings variability are due to uncertainty and which components are due to components of human diversity that are forecastable …

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