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US welfare reform : what's relevant for Europe?
Blank, Rebecca M. - 2002
This paper reviews the U.S. welfare reform efforts over the 1990s and the effects of these reforms to date. Seven … paper ends with some speculations about why European policy-makers are becoming more interested in U.S. welfare reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410428
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Immigration and entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506325
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Long-Term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood
Liang, Yinhe; Peng, Xiaobo; Sun, Meiping Aggie - 2024
This paper examines the long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring in early childhood. For this purpose, we evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development monitoring through routine health checkups for all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464217
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Africa's skill tragedy : does teachers' lack of knowledge lead to low student performance?
Bietenbeck, Jan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2015
Student performance in Sub-Saharan Africa is tragically low. We study the importance of teacher subject knowledge for student performance in this region using unique international assessment data for sixth-grade students and their teachers. To circumvent potential bias due to unobserved student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305375
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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438031
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Religious practice and student performance : evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995–2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643548
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Disrupting education? : experimental evidence on technology-aided instruction in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet; Ganimian, … - 2017
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a technology-aided after-school instruction program on learning outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs. A key feature of the program was its ability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602559
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012050798
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …. Namely, immigrants arrive with better health compared to natives and their health deteriorates with longer residence in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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Why Is the Roy-Borjas model unable to predict international migrant selection on education? : evidence from urban and rural mexico
Leopold, Stephan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320684