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Wage equalization and regional misallocation : evidence from Italian and German provinces
Boeri, Tito; Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico; Posch, Johanna - 2019
reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries … have similar geographical differences in firm productivity - with the North more productive than the South in Italy and the … West more productive than the East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998613
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Gone for good? : Determinants of school dropout in Southern Italy
O'Higgins, Shane Niall; D'Amato, Marcello; Caroleo, … - 2008
The aim of the present paper is to gain some insight into the causes of dropping out of school and, more generally, of the factors that induce parents to review their choices about their child's schooling careers. To this end we apply to data from a school dropout survey insights from a model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003672776
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When the cat is near, the mice won't play : the effect of external examiners in Italian schools
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2012
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner in standardized school tests reduces the proportion of correct answers in monitored classes by 5.5 to 8.5% - depending on the grade and the test - with respect to classes in schools with no external monitor. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548729
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In a small moment : class size and moral hazard in the Mezzogiorno
Angrist, Joshua D.; Battistin, Erich; Vuri, Daniela - 2015
Italy, suggesting a substantial return to class size reductions for residents of the Mezzogiorno. In addition to high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503463
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The effects of climate change in the poorest countries : evidence from the permanent shrinking of Lake Chad
Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman D.; … - 2023
Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...
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The gender education gap in China : the power of water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, William S. - 2009
We investigate girls' school dropout rates, bringing forward a novel variable: access to water. We hypothesise that a girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her household has poor access to water. For testing we use data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830743
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Climate adaptation policies and infant health: evidence from a water policy in Brazil
Mata, Daniel da; Emanuel, Lucas; Pereira, Vitor; … - 2021
This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and driest region to promote small-scale decentralized rainfall harvesting. Access to cisterns during early pregnancy...
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Water scarcity and social conflict
Unfried, Kerstin; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Poser, Tilman - 2021
Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water in space and time. This is expected to result in wet areas getting wetter and dry areas getting drier (Pan et al., 2015). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to...
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Got water? : social divisions and access to public goods in rural India
Balasubramaniam, Divya; Chatterjee, Santanu; Mustard, … - 2011
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to public goods usually aggregate different types of...
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Legal status and deprivation in India's urban slums : an analysis of two decades of national sample survey data
Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017
In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified...
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