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Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2008

"The authors introduce a simple empirical model that assumes a positive stigma (or norm) toward child labor that is common in some developing countries. They illustrate the positive stigma model using data from Guatemala. Controlling for several child and household-level characteristics, the...

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Child labor, school attendance, and indigenous households : Evidence from Mexico

Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2005

--a product of the Education Sector Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region--is part of a larger effort in the region to …

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Schooling and labor market impacts of a natural policy experiment

Sakellariou, Chris N. - 2004

Venezuela from instrumental variables based on a supply-side intervention in the education market. These estimates apply to a … education reform (the Organic Law of Education) which provided for nine years of compulsory basic education. They also obtain … alternative estimates using father's education as an instrument, in an attempt to derive high and low estimates of returns to …

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North-south trade-related technology diffusion, brain drain and productivity growth : are small states different?

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2009

, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two …, and decreases with the brain drain. Second, the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion, education, and …

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Substitution in Markusen's classic trade and factor movement complementarity models

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2006

"Mundell and Markusen each wrote classic papers on the relationship between trade and factor movement. Mundell showed that substitution holds in the Heckscher-Ohlin model. Markusen challenged the substitution result and showed in five different models that removing barriers to factor movement...

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Market presence, contestability, and the terms-of-trade effects of regional integration

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2001

How firms react to a given shock may depend on the degree to which rivals are present and on whether potentially viable entrants to that market exist. A preferred supplier market presence and threat of entry lessen a nonmember country's price reaction to most-favored-nation trade liberalization...

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