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Computer Mediated Transactions
Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10
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Governance Institutions and Economic Activity
Dixit, Avinash - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 1, pp. 5-24
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Democracy and Foreign Education
Spilimbergo, Antonio - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 1, pp. 528-43
Despite the large amount of private and public resources spent on foreign education, there is no systematic evidence … the foreign education is acquired in democratic countries. The results are robust to several estimation techniques, to … partners, neighboring countries, level of income, and level and stock of education. (JEL D72, I21, O15, O17, P26) …
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Competitive Policy Development
Hirsch, Alexander V.; Shotts, Kenneth W. - In: American Economic Review 105 (2015) 4, pp. 1646-64
We present a model of policy development in which competing factions have different ideologies, yet agree on certain common objectives. Policy developers can appeal to a decision maker by making productive investments to improve the quality of their proposals. These investments are specific to a...
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HIV Risk and Adolescent Behaviors in Africa
Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 433-38
greater female education and more premarital sexual activity in the cohorts that came of age before HIV was understood. …
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Boys' Cognitive Skill Formation and Physical Growth: Long-Term Experimental Evidence on Critical Ages for Early Childhood Interventions
Barham, Tania; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, John A. - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 467-71
It is often assumed that early life circumstances, in particular before age two, are important for later human capital development. Using experimental variation in the timing of benefits from a conditional cash transfer program, we test the hypothesis that intervention starting in utero and...
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Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in a Brawn-Based Economy
Pitt, Mark M.; Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Hassan, Mohammad Nazmul - In: American Economic Review 102 (2012) 7, pp. 3531-60
A model of human capital investment and activity choice is used to explain facts describing gender differentials in the levels and returns to human capital investments and occupational choice. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect of healthiness on wages,...
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Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India
Field, Erica; Jayachandran, Seema; Pande, Rohini - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 125-29
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Selective versus Universal Vouchers: Modelling Median Voter Preferences in Education
West, Edwin G.; Chen, Zhiqi - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 5, pp. 1520-1534
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Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Katrine Vellesen L?ken; Neilson, … - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 5, pp. 1862-91
This paper studies the effect of improved early life health care on mortality and long-run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns...
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