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External Capital Structures and Oil Price Volatility
Burger, John D. - 2010
oil price shocks. We study two Caribbean economies highly vulnerable to oil price shocks, an oil-importer (Jamaica) and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462602
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Institutions vs. Policies : A Tale of Two Islands
Henry, Peter Blair - 2008
for explaining differences in their subsequent economic development. Barbados and Jamaica provide a striking counter … 1960 to 2002, Barbados' GDP per capita grew roughly three times as fast as Jamaica's. Consequently, the income gap between … Barbados and Jamaica is now almost five times larger than at the time of independence. Since their property rights and legal …
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The decline of Latin American economies : growth, institutions, and crises
Edwards, Sebastian (ed.) - 2007
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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774
Burnard, Trevor - 2017
wealth Jamaica was the most unequal place in the pre-modern world. Furthermore, all of these characteristics applied to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453817
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What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output
Beuermann, Diether - 2018
Is a school's impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value school impacts on tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first question, we exploit quasi-random school assignments and data from Trinidad and Tobago. We construct...
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Ability-grouping and Academic Inequality : Evidence From Rule-based Student Assignments
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2009
In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after fifth grade based on achievement tests, leading to large differences in the school environments to which students of differing initial levels of achievement are exposed. Using both a regression discontinuity design and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463737
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Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection : Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2011
Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm allowing one to address self-selection bias and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461840
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Can Higher-Achieving Peers Explain the Benefits to Attending Selective Schools? : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2010
Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I credibly estimate both (1) the effect of attending schools with higher-achieving peers, and (2) the direct effect of short-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same...
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Population and economic change in developing countries
Easterlin, Richard Ainley (ed.); Easterlin, Richard A. (ed.) - 1980
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The role of agriculture in economic development : a conference of the Universtities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research
Thorbecke, Erik (ed.) - 1969
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