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Evaluation of development programs : using regressions to assess the impact of complex interventions

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2012

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The consequences of implementing a child care voucher : evidence from Australia, the Netherlands and USA

Warner, Mildred; Gradus, Raymond - 2009

In the Netherlands, the USA and Australia public funding has promoted parental choice by introducing a voucher for child care, where parents are free to choose the provider. The policy experiments in these three countries and the outcomes provide useful information about the consequences of...

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The wage penalty of dialect-speaking

Ours, Jan C. van; Yao, Yuxin - 2016

Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into...

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Spatial patterns of technology diffusion : an empirical analysis using TFP

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004

In this paper we employ techniques developed in spatial econometrics to analyse spatial patterns of technology diffusion, to detect clusters and to estimate theoretical models that incorporate space explicitly. These techniques correct for misspecifications resulting from the omission of spatial...

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The effects of student feedback to teachers : evidence from a field experiment

Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - 2018

intermediate vocational education. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received …

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Effects of ethnic geographical clustering on educational attainment in the Netherlands

Graaff, Thomas de; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter - 2001

Contemporary migration studies witness an increasing interest in the socio-economicrole of networks of migrants. Such networks are sometimes even regarded as the mostimportant attraction and location factors for migration, and may even exceed purelyeconomic factors like unemployment and wage...

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Same work, lower grade? : student ethnicity and teachers' subjective assessments

Ewijk, Reyn van - 2010

likely to be indirect than direct.This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Economics of Education Review' (30 …

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Gender differences, HIV risk perception and condom use

Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Willebrands, Daan - 2011

We analyze how HIV-knowledge influences condom use across the sexes. The empirical work is based on a household survey conducted among 1,979 households of a representative group of market persons in Lagos in 2008. Last-time-condom-use is analyzed based on a Probit model while correcting for...

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The economics and econometrics of gene-environment interplay

Biroli, Pietro; Galama, Titus; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2022

Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now be informed by the ready availability of genetic data in a growing number of social science datasets. This paper...

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Optimal linear income taxation and education subsidies under skill-biased technical change

Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2020

This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC … effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education distortions. Analytically, the effect of SBTC on these three … distributional losses, and it increases education distortions. Also, SBTC lowers optimal education subsidies, since SBTC generates …

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