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The Association of Opening K-12 Schools and Colleges with the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States : County-Level Panel Data Analysis

Chernozhukov, Victor; Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Schrimpf, Paul - 2021

an increase in visits to schools and opening schools with different teaching methods (in-person, hybrid, and remote) is …

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Teacher Subject Knowledge, Didactic Skills, and Student Learning in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Bietenbeck, Jan; Irmert, Natalie; Sepahvand, Mohammad H. - 2022

We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. We use data from an international large-scale assessment in 14 countries that include individual-level information on student achievement and...

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Prioritarianism in Education

Ooghe, Erwin - 2021

I first summarize and critically discuss the different normative views that are operational in the academic literature on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and compare it to utilitarians and Rawlsians. I finish with...

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Trade, Education, and Income Inequality

Brueckner, Markus - 2020

This paper examines the relationship between countries' bilateral trade with the United States that is not due to gravity (non-gravity trade) and the distribution of income within countries. In countries where only a small share of the population are educated, an increase in non-gravity trade is...

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Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Jayachandran, Seema - 2020

This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...

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Pension Information and Women's Awareness

Angelici, Marta - 2020

We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women were interviewed to assess their knowledge about...

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Shedding Light on the Shadow Economy : A Global Database and the Interaction with the Official One

Medina, Leandro - 2019

Using the multiple indicator-multiple cause (MIMIC) approach, this paper generates a novel global database by estimating the size of the shadow economy for 157 countries over 1991 to 2017. The results suggest that the OECD countries are by far the lowest with values below 20% of off official GDP...

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Measuring the Immeasurable : The Evolution of the Size of Informal Economy in the Agricultural Sector in the EU-15 Up to 2019

Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021

This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple indicators multiple causes model (MIMIC) was developed for the estimation of levels of informal economy in 15 “Old” European Union Member States’ agricultural sectors for...

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The Impact of Inequality on the Informal Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a Mimic Model

Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023

Vast literature is available covering main Informal Economy (IE) causes and consequences for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41...

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Is traditional teaching really all that bad? : a within-student between-subject approach

Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2009

determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the … relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the US, the … traditional lecture style teaching is associated with significantly higher student achievement. No support for detrimental effects …

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