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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe
Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - 2009
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932493
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Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis
Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018
Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810097
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Ethnic differences in duration and timing of exposure to neighbourhood disadvantage during childhood
Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2017
This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands …. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children's exposure to neighborhood poverty and affluence (e … children were more likely than native Dutch children to live in a poor neighborhood at any specific stage within childhood, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716179
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The social side of early human capital formation: using a field experiment to estimate the causal impact of neighborhoods
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2020
The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389402
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Neighborhood spillover effects of early childhood interventions
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014297141
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Are estimates of early education programs too pessimistic? : evidence from a large-scale field experiment that causally measures neighbor effects
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161541
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Contract violations, neighborhood effects, and wage arrears in Russia
Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002120369
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly … assigned neighborhood increases compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. This magnitude corresponds to a tenth of the gap … overall share of immigrants in the neighborhood has a negative effect on GPA. -- Peer effects ; ethnic enclaves ; immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906254
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Understanding neighbourhood effects : selection bias and residential mobility
Bergström, Lina; Ham, Maarten van - 2010
The number of studies investigating neighbourhood effects has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Although many of these studies claim to have found evidence for neighbourhood effects, most 'evidence' is likely the result of reversed causality. The main challenge in modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009008845
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Neighbourhood choice and neighbourhood reproduction
Bergström, Lina; Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David - 2010
Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153044