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External monitors and score manipulation in italian schools : symptomatic treatment or cure?

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; De Benedetto, Marco … - 2019

We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...

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Are microloans bad for growth?

Emerson, Patrick M.; McGough, Bruce - 2010

externalities (social returns to education) there exists a range of microloan amounts that are growth depressing and welfare … divert investment away from human capital: by failing to internalize the social returns to education, households …

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The short- and longer-term effects of a child labor ban

Piza, Caio; Souza, André Portela; Emerson, Patrick M.; … - 2022

Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...

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Selective schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999

This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...

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An explanation of international differences in education and workplace training

Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000

We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First …, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with …

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Unemployment, education and earnings growth

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence …

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