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A curse of comparison? : Evidence on reference groups for relative income concerns
Kuegler, Alice - 2009
-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … positively linked to individual life satisfaction. This evidence supplements the scarce economic research on reference groups …
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Improving the Well-Being of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries
World Bank - 2021
Adolescent girls are viewed as a key demographic group to target for successfully breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails a fleeting transition from childhood to adulthood,...
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An evaluation of the performance of regression discontinuity design on progresa
Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2004
"While providing the most reliable method of evaluating social programs, randomized experiments in industrial and developing countries alike are accompanied by political risks and ethical issues that jeopardize the chances of adopting them. Buddelmeyer and Skoufias use a unique data set from...
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Imputed welfare estimates in regression analysis
Elbers, Chris - 2004
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Indonesia, wages and employment
Lluch, Constantino - 1985
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Indonesia : employment and income distribution in Indonesia
Leiserson, Mark (contributor) - 1980
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More and better jobs in South Asia
2011
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Back to work : growing with jobs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Arias, Omar - 2014
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Youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Filmer, Deon; Fox, M. Louise - 2014
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Vocational schooling, labor market outcomes, and college entry
Chen, Dandan - 2009
in terms of employment opportunities, labor market earnings, and access to tertiary education in Indonesia. With data … students in 1997 to examine their schooling and employment status in 2000. The findings demonstrate that: (1) attendance at … vocational secondary schools results in neither market advantage nor disadvantage in terms of employment opportunities and …
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