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On the Effectiveness of Child Care Centers in Promoting Child Development in Ecuador

Rosero, Jose - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

have concluded that the provision of these services are beneficial to enhance the development of poor children at early … development. This paper also provides evidence that the program increased mother's labor force participation and family income but … reduced health outcomes of children. The results are in line with the ones found in (Rosero and Oosterbeek, 2011) and support …

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Trade-offs between Different Early Childhood Interventions: Evidence from Ecuador

Rosero, Jose; Oosterbeek, Hessel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

children and mothers in Ecuador. We find thathome visits are beneficial for children's cognitive outcomes and health and for …

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The ABC of Housing Strategies: Are Housing Assistance Programs Effective in Enhancing Children's Well Being?

Rosero, Jose - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper examines the effect of a housing assistance program on school enrollment, child labor and poverty reduction among poor families in Ecuador. Administrative data is merged to a household panel to link the history of a voucher application with socioeconomic information. Two empirical...

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Transformations of Industrial Heritage: Insights into External Effects on House Prices

Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan; Boersema, Richard - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

Local policy makers seek ways to deal with abandoned industrial heritage in their jurisdictions. Much is demolished, but in some cases considerable investments are made to preserve the cultural aspects of industrial sites. The renewal plans are usually designed to stimulate urban renewal in the...

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Assessing Budget Support with Statistical Impact Evaluation: a Methodological Proposal

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Hoop, Kobus de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Donor agencies and recipient governments want to assess the effectiveness of aid-supported sector policies. Unfortunately, existing methods for impact evaluation are designed for the evaluation of homogeneous interventions (‘projects’) where those with and without ‘treatment’ can be...

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one...

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Indirect Welfare Effects of Price Changes and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

The effects of a policy measure often reach the consumer only after one or more intermediatesteps, for instance because the measure lowers the cost of an input for an industry producinga consumer good. This paper is concerned with the question how to measure such indirect effectscorrectly under...

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Non-Marginal Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Tyranny of Discounting

Vermeylen, Koen - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper uses the Kaldor-Hicks compensation principle to compute the present value (PV) of a non-marginal future event. Three theoretical results stand out: First, decreasing returns to capital create a wedge between the PV of future generations' willingness to pay (WTP) and the PV of their...

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Modified Ramsey Discounting for Climate Change

Tol, Richard S.J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

The Ramsey rule for the consumption rate of discount assumes a transfer of money of a (representative) agent at one point in time to the same agent at another point in time. Climate policy (implicitly) transfers money not just over time but also between agents. I propose three alternative...

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A New Explanatory Model for Policy Analysis and Evaluation

Schouwstra, Marije; Ellman, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This model of policy evaluation has been developed to identify factors that cause policy outcomes to diverge from the intended results. In this model the explanatory factors may be inherent to the conceptual and institutional framework to which policy makers adhere, or they may be ‘real...

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