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Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; Moreira, Diana B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption …This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect … of corruption across municipalities and controlling for student, school, and municipal characteristics, we find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570795
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School Drop-Out and Push-Out Factors in Brazil: The Role of Early Parenthood, Child Labor, and Poverty
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Verner, Dorte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
surrounding, the shantytowns of Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil. We use an extensive survey addressing risk factors faced by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822494
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Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...
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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the "psychology and economics" of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469709
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Are Employees Better Off in Socially Responsible Firms?
Tamm, Katrin; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The growing awareness of the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has raised the questions about how responsible behavior of firms would impact employees’ well-being. This paper investigates the link between corporate social responsibility and job satisfaction, which is a more widely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805613
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Determinants of Managerial Values on Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from China
Zu, Liangrong; Song, Lina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms’ productive characteristics influence managers’ attitudes towards their CSR rating, and whether their values in favour of CSR are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566698
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The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the impact of political turnover on economic performance in a setting of largely unanticipated political change and profoundly weak institutions: the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Exploiting census-type panel data on over 7,000 manufacturing enterprises, we find that the...
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Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty
Bagchi, Sutirtha; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and...
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Sexual Orientation, Disclosure and Earnings
Plug, Erik; Berkhout, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
selection? In this paper we address this question and collect new information on workplace disclosure to separate out …/bisexual workers earn about 3 to 4 percent less than other men. Our disclosure estimates, however, provide little evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763631
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Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Iyer, Lakshmi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant...
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