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Atlas, Steven - 2010

Many Americans report chronic and disabling pain, even in the absence of identifiable clinical disorders. We first examine the prevalence of pain in the older U.S. population using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Among 50-59 year females, for example, pain rates ranged from 26 percent for...

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Corrupting Learning : Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil

Ferraz, Claudio - 2012

This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect … student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption … of corruption across municipalities and controlling for student, school, and municipal characteristics, we find a …

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Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector : The Case of School Principals

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2016

Firms and other organizations establish the criteria under which employees will be judged and the performance measures made available to supervisors, the board of directors and other stakeholders, and these structures almost certainly influence behavior and organization outcomes. Any divergence...

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Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which...

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Is market potential robust in explaining regional educational levels in Europe?

López Rodríguez, Jesús - In: Applied economics letters 14 (2007) 7/9, pp. 489-492

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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs : Education, Religion and Superstition

Mocan, Naci H. - 2014

We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...

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Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990 - 2010

Gasparini, Leonardo; Galiani, Sebastián; Cruces, Guillermo - 2011

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Marriage, education and assortative mating in Latin America

Ganguli, Ina; Hausmann, Ricardo; Viarengo, Martina - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 10/12, pp. 806-811

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Extending the school day in Latin America and the Caribbean

Holland, Peter Anthony; Alfaro, Pablo; Evans, David K. - 2015

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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America : Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework

Galiani, Sebastian - 2017

This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials and the supply of workers by educational level for sixteen Latin American countries over the period 1991-2013. We find a pattern of rather constant rise in the relative supply of skilled and semi-skilled workers over the period. Whereas...

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