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Barriers to skill acquisition : evidence from English training in India

Jain, Tarun; Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - 2016

field experiment in India that subsidizes the cost of learning spoken English, we find that full subsidy (compared to …

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Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

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Population aging in India : facts, issues, and options

Agarwal, Arunika; Lubet, Alyssa; Mitgang, Elizabeth; … - 2016

India, one of the world's two population superpowers, is undergoing unprecedented demographic changes. Increasing … context, scope, and magnitude of India's demographic changes. It then details the major challenges these shifts pose in the … presents an overview of India's recent and ongoing initiatives to adapt to population aging and provide support to older adults …

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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature

Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...

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Posh spice or scary spice? : resource booms, wealth, and human capital across ages

Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E. - 2024

We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...

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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna (contributor); … - 2008

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...

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The effects of in-work benefit reform in Britain on couples : theory and evidence

Francesconi, Marco (contributor); Rainer, Helmut (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the effects of the Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples in Britain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for the role played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using panel data from the British...

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Assessing the importance of male and female part-time work for the gender earnings gap in Britain

Mumford, Karen (contributor); Smith, Peter N. (contributor) - 2007

This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, and workplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men and women in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male full-timers, male...

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Wages and ageing : is there evidence for the "inverse-U" profile?

Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2007

How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...

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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries

Callan, Tim (contributor); Smeeding, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2008

Direct provision of public services can alter the balance of resources across income groups. We focus on the issues arising when taking account of the impact of publicly provided education services across the income distribution. We combine OECD information on spending per student in particular...

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