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Schooling, educational achievement, and the Latin American growth puzzle

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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009

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Gender differences in discrimination emerge early in life : evidence from primary school children in a bilingual city

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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves : Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

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Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

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A case for taxing charitable donations

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On the Desirability of Taxing Charitable Contributions

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We develop a model that allows for public goods and status signaling through charitable contributions. This model provides a unified framework in which contributions are driven both by altruism and status signaling. We use this setup to re-examine the conventional practice of rendering a...

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Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences : A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal - 2018

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The impact of an adult education voucher program : evidence from a randomized field experiment

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