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estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several …
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's involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity. For high-educated parents, we also find that both … parents' involvement in education and neighborhood's quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of … education, the former being more potent than the latter. Low-educated parents do not spend much time educating their offspring …
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Bergin and Lipman (1996) show that the refinement effect from the random mutations in the adaptive population dynamics in Kandori, Mailath and Rob (1993) and Young (1993) is due to restrictions on how these mutation rates vary across population states. We here model mutation rates as...
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careful design as well as on theoretical models yielding more credible and robust estimates seems also highly warranted. …
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We use individual and multi-level data from Zambia on child nutritional health to test the absolute income hypothesis (AIH), the relative income hypothesis (RIH) and the income inequality hypothesis (IIH). The results confirm a non-linear positive relation between economic resources and health,...
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Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during other technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of...
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The search for growth-promoting policies is found to demand knowledge of how growth depends upon actions of entrepreneurs and how these actions depend upon the prevailing institutions. While institutions have extensively been examined for their influences upon the freedoms and the incentives of...
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