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The Education, Labour Market and Health Consequences of Child Labour
Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H; Gatti, Roberta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Though there is a large literature on the determinants of child labour and many initiatives aimed at combating this phenomenon, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labour for socioeconomic outcomes such as education, occupational choice, wages, and health. Using panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067577
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The Effect of Financial Rewards on Students' Achievements: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper reports a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University … particular, students with high maths skills and students with higher educated fathers have higher passing rates and collect more … treatment status, these students claim that they have studied harder as a consequence of the rewards. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662274
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Human Development in Africa: A Long-run Perspective
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa,...
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Weather and Infant Mortality in Africa
Kudamatsu, Masayuki; Persson, Torsten; Strömberg, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We estimate how random weather fluctuations affected infant mortality across 28 African countries in the past, combining high-resolution data from retrospective fertility surveys (DHS) and climate-model reanalysis (ERA-40). We find that infants were much more likely to die when exposed in utero...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083660
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School Proximity and Child Labor: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
Kondylis, Florence; Manacorda, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Is improved school accessibility an effective policy tool for reducing child labor in developing countries? We address this question using micro data from rural Tanzania and a regression strategy that attempts to control for non-random location of households around schools as well as classical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527531
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Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel’s Economists
Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country’s universities - or not to return...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497751
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Brain Drained: A Tale of Two Countries
Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper provides a comparative examination of how public universities in two countries, the United States and Israel, have evolved over the past few decades - and how differences between the two have culminated in a rate of academic brain drain from the latter to the former that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656177
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Academic Achievements: Grades versus Duration
Brugiavini, Agar; Carraro, Carlo; Kovacic, Matija - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari … University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set … of independent variables contains information on students' personal characteristics, prior academic achievements, family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213310
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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia
Checchi, Daniele; De Fraja, Gianni; Verzillo, Stefano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of applicants, the number of new posts, and the relative importance of the determinants of promotion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083915
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Are Elite Universities Losing their Competitive Edge?
Han Kim, E; Morse, Adair; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect...
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