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Child Education and Work Choices in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio; Fitzsimons, Emla; Gomez, Ana; Lopez, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a quasi-experimental approach, our methodology makes use of an interesting feature of the data, which allows us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123901
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Are there Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
Recent studies have used quantile regression (QR) techniques to estimate the impact of education on the location, scale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977288
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Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents
Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioural problems … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional … may transmit the effect of maternal education to the child, including family environment and parental investments at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498098
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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the country’s education budget. We find large positive effects on test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249370
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Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind
Booth, Alison; Tamura, Yuji - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labour … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490575
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Back-to-front Down-under? Estimating the Part-time/Full-time Wage Differential over the Period 2001-2003
Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968005
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Training, Minimum Wages and the Earnings Distribution
Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
British workers. We therefore suggest that the minimum wage has the potential to reduce wages inequality in the longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971373
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Men at Work in a Land Down-under
Booth, Alison; Katic, Pamela - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
We use new training data from waves 3-6 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey to investigate the training and wages of full-time men. We explore the extent to which the data are consistent with the predictions of human capital theory or with recent alternative theories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971374
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Increasing Returns to Education: Theory and Evidence
Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn; Gong, Xiaodong - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
increasing returns to education at the labor market participation margin, and that these depend directly on the elasticity of … labor supply with respect to wages. Thus the increasing returns to education problem will be most relevant for women or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977262
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Back-to-front Down-under? Part-time/Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia
Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977299