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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...
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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...
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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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Thieves, thugs, and neighborhood poverty
Bjerk, David - 2009
This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty … and violent crimes will arise, and moreover, "neighborhood" effects can develop, but will differ substantially in nature … with the empirical evidence. -- Poverty ; crime ; neighborhood effects ; segregation ; instrumental variables ; public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902147
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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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Neighbourhood effects on migrant youth's educational commitments : an enquiry into personality differences
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Hooimeijer, Pieter; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2013
In the neighbourhood effects literature, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually internalise educational norms held by residents, is often...
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Neighborhood quality and student performance
Weinhardt, Felix - 2013
performance. -- neighborhood effects ; housing policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696034
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Where the streets have a name : income comparisons in the US
Brodeur, Abel; Fleche, Sarah - 2013
This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and street-levels and find that the association between well-being and neighbors' income follows an...
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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016
background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship … siblings share (i.e., family background and neighborhood effects). The average is 28 percent. Hence, entrepreneurship is far … neighborhood effects matter, but are rather small, particularly when compared with the overall importance of family factors …
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