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Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints: A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design

Grembi, Veronica; Nannicini, Tommaso; Troiano, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing fiscal discipline on municipal governments, and in 2001 the rules were relaxed for municipalities...

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Electrification and Educational Outcomes in Rural Peru

Dasso, Rosamaría; Fernandez, Fernando; Nopo, Hugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We study the effects of electrification on educational outcomes in Peru by taking advantage of a program that rapidly …

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Constrained Firms, Not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises

Göbel, Kristin; Grimm, Michael; Lay, Jann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but rapidly decreasing at higher levels. The dynamic analyses of capital accumulation in MEs...

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Integrating Mobile Phone Technologies into Labor-Market Intermediation: A Multi-Treatment Experimental Design

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C.; Galdo, Virgilio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This study investigates the causal impacts of integrating mobile phone technologies into traditional public labor-market intermediation services on employment outcomes. By providing faster, cheaper and up-to-date information on job vacancies via SMS, mobile phone technologies might affect the...

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Digital Labor-Market Intermediation and Job Expectations: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C.; Galdo, Virgilio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

subjective job gain expectations in Peru. Results show that jobseekers who received digital intermediation based on a large …

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Child Labor Variation by Type of Respondent: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study uses a nationally representative survey to analyze a key survey design decision in child labor measurement: self-reporting versus proxy interviewing. The child/proxy disagreement affects 20 percent of the sample, which translates into a 17.1 percentage point difference in the national...

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The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation

Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...

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Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru

Dammert, Ana C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyze the indirect effects of the anti-coca policy on children’s allocation …

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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...

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Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining

Dahl, Christian M.; le Maire, Daniel; Munch, Jakob R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm-level influences wage levels and wage … dispersion. We use detailed panel data covering a period of decentralization in the Danish labor market. The decentralization … decentralization. We find a wage premium associated with firm-level bargaining relative to sector-level bargaining, and that the return …

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