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Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...
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researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal caregiving, this paper reviews current research … interdisciplinary, the research designs, sampling procedures, and statistical methods used are heterogeneous. Nevertheless, we are still … implications for family life remain under investigated. The research findings also differ strongly among subgroups, although they …
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higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …
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research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and …. While higher education started to grow substantially around 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education … transformation is most clearly revealed in the change of language used in research from the national language, Latin, German and …
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The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
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This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combines multiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and their behavioral correlates. Standard survey questions eliciting ethical evaluations of actions in on-the-job...
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stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …
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Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper … vocational high school. Accounting for risk does little to change this picture. By contrast, vocational high school is associated …
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We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique survey among more than 1000 households, collected in Mozambique in summer 2008, a few months after a series of xenophobic attacks in South...
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This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balanced skill profiles, making them more … likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated … the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …
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