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Andersson, Fredrik; Davis, Elizabeth E.; Freedman, Matthew - 2011

This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using...

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Sectoral cognitive skills, R&D, and productivity : a cross-country cross-sector analysis

Sasso, Simone; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2016

We focus on human capital measured by education outcomes (skills) and establish the relationship between human capital, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the recent literature has relied on school attainment rather...

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A new model for equitable and efficient resource allocation to schools : the Israeli case

BenDavid-Hadar, Iris; Ziderman, Adrian - 2010

This paper sets out a new budget allocation formula for schools, designed to achieve a more equitable distribution of educational achievement. In addition to needs-based elements, the suggested composite allocation formula includes an improvement component, whereby schools receive budgetary...

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Instrumenting the effect of terrorism on education in Kenya

Alfano, Marco; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2023

This paper estimates the effect of exposure to terrorist violence on education. Since terrorists may choose targets endogenously, we construct a set of novel instruments. To that end, we leverage exogenous variation from a local terrorist group's revenues and its affiliation with al-Qaeda....

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Gender patterns in Vietnam's child mortality

Pham, Thong Le; Kooreman, Peter; Koning, Ruud Hans; … - 2011

We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region …

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Education and freedom of choice : evidence from arranged marriages in Vietnam

Emran, M. Shahe; Maret-Rakotondrazaka, Fenohasina; … - 2012

Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use … significantly weaker for men. -- arranged marriage ; education ; schooling ; freedom of choice ; development ; Vietnam ; Red River …

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The impact of education on unemployment incidence and re-employment success : evidence from the US labour market

Riddell, William Craig; Song, Xueda - 2011

education, we make use of data on compulsory schooling laws and child labour laws as well as conscription risk in the Vietnam … ; labour market transitions ; unemployment ; causal effects ; compulsory schooling laws ; child labour laws ; Vietnam War draft …

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Determinants of employment growth at MNEs : evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

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The impact evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) program on students' cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Glewwe, Paul; Lee, Jongwook; Khoa Vu - 2022

This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by … small in the short-term, and that they are larger for boys, ethnic minorities, and students in Northern Vietnam. The VNEN …

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What explains Vietnam's exceptional performance in education relative to other countries? : analysis of the 2012 and 2015 Pisa data

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Glewwe, Paul; Khoa Vu; Lee, Jongwook - 2021

Despite being the poorest or second poorest participant, Vietnam performed much better than all other developing … provide a rigorous investigation of Vietnam's strong performance. After making various parametric and non …-parametric corrections for potentially non-representative PISA samples, including bias due to Vietnam's large out-of-school population …

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