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Does globalisation increase child labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later: linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find that...

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The income elasticity of child labour : do cash transfers have an impact on the poorest children?

Pellerano, Luca; Porreca, Eleonora; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2018

below which an increase in income has no impact on child labour and education. We estimate the causal impact of an increase … in income on child labour and education exploiting the random allocation of the Child Grant Programme, an unconditional …, while relatively less poor households reduce child labour and increase education. In policy terms, the results indicate that …

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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

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Elementary facts about immigration in Italy : what do we know about immigration and its impact?

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Pasquini, Alessandra; Rosati, Furio … - 2020

The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...

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Child schooling and child work in the presence of a partial education subsidy

Hoop, Jacobus de; Friedman, Jed; Kandpal, Eeshani; … - 2017

Could a partial subsidy for child education increase children's participation in paid work? In contrast to much of the …

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Do natives' beliefs about refugees' education level affect attitudes toward refugees? : evidence from randomized survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Piopiunik, Marc; Simon, Lisa - 2017

exogenously shifted participants' beliefs about refugees' education level through information provision. Consistent with economic … theory, we find that beliefs about refugees' education significantly affect concerns about labor market competition. These …

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533965

Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895602

The E-word - on the public acceptance of experiments

Fischer, Mira; Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2023

Randomized experiments are often viewed as the "gold standard" of scientific evidence, but people's scepticism towards experiments has compromised their viability in the past. We study preferences for experimental policy evaluations in a representative survey in Germany (N1,900). We find that a...

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