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Rewarding Commitment to Attend School : A Field Study with Indigenous Australian High School Students
Potia, Azhar Hussain - 2020
We introduce a novel incentive program aimed at decreasing school absenteeism based on the effect of voluntary promises in motivating desirable behaviour. In contrast to a standard program, in which students receive a reward conditional on having achieved a school attendance rate of at least 90...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844208
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264330
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What Stayers Do? Capital Endowments and On-Farm Transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao - 2019
While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to account for a large share of employment. We study the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892049
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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance
Suesse, Marvin - 2019
What determines the development of rural financial markets? Starting from a simple theoretical framework, we derive the factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for these determinants using the expansion of credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857765
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Understanding Monetary Policy and its Effects : Evidence from Canadian Firms Using the Business Outlook Survey
Verstraete, Matthieu - 2018
Using real time data, we show that the monetary policy rule in Canada is better described by a Taylor rule augmented … Canada’s quarterly Business Outlook Survey, we study the impact of monetary policy on firms’ expectations of sales and prices …
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Political Competitiveness and Fiscal Structure : A Time Series Analysis. Canada, 1870 - 2015
Ferris, J Stephen - 2018
relation to Canada’s fiscal structure. By fiscal structure we mean three distinct but interrelated fiscal dimensions of the …
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Two Different Conflicts in Federal Systems : An Application to Canada
Mintz, Jack - 2019
Canada's federation …
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Putting Canada in the Penalty Box : Trade and Welfare Effects of Eliminating NAFTA
Baier, Scott L. - 2019
international trade is the use of quantitative trade models to estimate the economic welfare losses from dissolutions of major … 2019, the existence of the entire North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is at risk if the United States withdraws - a … threat President Trump has made if the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is not passed by the U.S. Congress. We …
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Alternatives to Paying Child Benefit to the Rich : Means Testing or Higher Tax?
Apps, Patricia F. - 2020
/redistribution trade-offs of the alternatives by results from simulation models …
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A Dynamic Model of Political Party Equilibrium : The Evolution of ENP in Canada, 1870-2015
Ferris, J Stephen - 2020
entry and exit of candidates and parties are analyzed for Canada from 1870 through 2015 first using an auto …
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