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Changing Fertility Preferences One Migrant at a Time: The Impact of Remittances on the Fertility Rate

Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...

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The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Umana-Aponte, Marcela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … but positive in Africa. We suggest that amongst reasons why African women behave differently are that the conventional … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses …

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Why Some Firms Train Apprentices and Many Others Do Not

Wolter, Stefan C.; Muehlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Juerg - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The latest study investigating the cost-benefit ratio of apprenticeship training for Swiss companies has shown that most apprentices offset the cost of their training during their apprenticeship on the basis of the productive contribution of the work they perform. Given this outcome, it is worth...

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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Early Meetings and Activation

Maibom Pedersen, Jonas; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We analyze the effects of four randomized social experiments, involving early and intensive active labour market policy, conducted in Denmark in 2008. The experiments entailed different combinations of early and intensive treatment in terms of meetings and active labour market programmes. The...

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Using Happiness Surveys to Value Intangibles: The Case of Airport Noise

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Baarsma, Barbara E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Inhabitants of houses near Amsterdam Airport are complaining of noise nuisance, caused by aircraft traffic. The usual assumption is that the effect of the externality will be perfectly reflected by house price differentials. This is based on the implicit assumption that there is a...

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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...

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A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary

Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper summarizes our recent work on the rate of return and cost-benefit ratio of an influential early childhood program.

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Evaluating an Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian Steel Foundation

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing - and could therefore serve as a role model for other programs. In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel firms have lead to large-scale redundancies. A...

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Can Private School Growth Foster Universal Literacy? Panel Evidence from Indian Districts

Pal, Sarmistha; Kingdon, Geeta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set the agenda for the attainment of universal literacy by 2015 primarily to be delivered by the state sector. This agenda tends to ignore the significant private school growth around the world since early 1990s, thus initiating the policy debate as to whether...

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