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We propose estimating gender peer effects in school by exploiting within-school variation in gender composition across …
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-level data from Romania, this study examines how the presence of global retail chains affects firms in the supplying industries …
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We identify the presence of soft budgets and analyse their impact on enterprise restructuring in Romania over the …
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adjustments to regional shocks by education level brought about in part by Central European labour-market institutions, such as …
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countries, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia. The data are based on interviews taken in more than 300 state-owned, privatized and … pressure has a positive impact on firm performance in Hungary and Slovenia, but not in Romania, while in Romenia short … Romania, the results are somewhat mixed; state-owned enterprises do worse than employee-owned (privatized) and newly …
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We provide comprehensive analysis of the isolation program for financially distressed firms in Romania. The results …
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A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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This paper studies the aggregate economic effects of diversity policies such as affirmative action in college admission. If agents are constrained in the side payments they can make, the free market allocation displays excessive segregation relative to the first-best. Affirmative action policies...
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We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several … high school display significantly higher graduation rates. The probability of dying over the decade 1991-2001 was also …, such as the ensuing compensatory interventions. Moreover, cohorts exempted soon after high school age do not display higher …
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