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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country: An Optimal Taxation Problem with Moral Hazard

Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2010

work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …

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The Political Economy of Intergenerational Cooperation

Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2005

The paper examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. After establishing a normative framework, we examine the properties of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181293

Optimal Policy Towards Families with Different Amounts of Social Capital, in the Presence of Asymmetric Information and Stochastic Fertility

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - CESifo - 2006

We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...

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A Theoretical Analysis of the Effects of Legislation on Marriage, Fertility, Domestic Division of Labour, and the Education of Children

Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2007

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical … countries tend to get less education than boys of the same educational ability, and of why a substantial minority of women in …

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The effects of higher education programme characteristics on allocation and performance of the graduates: a European view

Hans, Heijke; Christoph, Meng - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2006

transition from education to the labour market. Using a unique data set on the labour market situation of graduates in nine … European countries, we investigate the significance of five characteristics of the higher education programmes: (1) The … occupations.First, our results reveal in particular the importance of the competence orientation of the education programme …

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Determinants of dropout behaviour in a job training programme for disadvantaged youths

de, Crombrugghe Denis; Henry, Espinoza; Hans, Heijke - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2010

A general conclusion of the youth job training programme (YJTP) evaluationliterature is that these programmes are more effective when completed. Yet,YJTPs suffer from substantial dropout problems. This paper studies the extent ofthe dropout phenomenon and under which circumstances dropout is...

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Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition

Andreas, Ammermüller; Hans, Heijke; Ludger, Wöszmann - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2003

data for lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of student background on educational performance …

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Job-training programmes with low completion rates: The case of Projoven-Peru

de, Crombrugghe Denis; Henry, Espinoza; Hans, Heijke - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2010

Projoven is an ongoing Peruvian youth job-training programme started in 1996and conducted in successive waves or ‘public calls’. The programme has twophases of instruction: i) three months of classroom training, followed by ii) threemonths of on-the-job training internship. From 1997 to...

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