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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959739
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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-quarters of the gaps in age-eight IQ and achievement would be eliminated by the early education program. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279253
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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703306
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Human Well-being and In-Work Benefits: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Dorsett, Richard; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Many politicians believe they can intervene in the economy to improve people's lives. But can they? In a social experiment carried out in the United Kingdom, extensive in-work support was randomly assigned among 16,000 disadvantaged people. We follow a sub-sample of 3,500 single parents for 5...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739948
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The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Flows to the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas; Davis, Rhona - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in the last two decades. However, the distribution of FDI is highly unequal and the competition among countries to attract foreign investors is fierce. This report investigates the determinants of FDI inflows to developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762073
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Labor Market Policy Options of the Kurdistan Regional Government
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This study is a descriptive analysis of the labor market conditions in Iraqi Federal Kurdistan Region. It explores a number of integrated factors that covariate and determine the level and patterns of the labor market outcomes in the region. In the first step, each of the determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763641
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Mother or Motherland: Can a Government Have an Impact on Educational Attainment of the Population? Preliminary Evidence from India
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Chakrabarty, Manisha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
likelihoods are personal and household characteristics like gender and education of household heads. However, state … from the lowest levels of education to somewhat higher levels. The odds of making the transition to higher education …, especially tertiary education, are systematically lower for women than for men, for individuals in rural areas than those in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568311
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Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy
Almenberg, Johan; Gerdes, Christer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The tendency to underestimate the future value of a variable growing at a constant rate, an example of exponential growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making. We show that exponential growth bias and standard measures of financial literacy are negatively correlated in a...
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Banks Information Policies, Financial Literacy and Household Wealth
Fort, Margherita; Manaresi, Francesco; Trucchi, Serena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate the causal effect of financial literacy on financial assets, exploiting banks information policies for identification. In Italy, banks who belong to the PattiChiari consortium have implemented policies aimed at increasing transparency and procedural simplification. These policies...
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Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
the validity of studies evaluating voluntary financial education programs and policy efforts focused on expanding … financial education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761687