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Genetic and socioeconomic achievement gaps in elementary school

Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Ronda, Victor; Agerbo, Esben; … - 2022

Socioeconomic (SES) gaps in academic achievement are well documented. We show that a very similar gap exists with respect to genetic differences measured by a polygenic score (PGS) for educational attainment. The genetic gap increases during elementary school, but only among the low SES...

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Public and parental investments, and children's skill formation

Gensowski, Miriam; Landersø, Rasmus; Dale, Philip; … - 2024

This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a longer-run follow-up study of a randomized controlled trial that increased preschool quality and initially improved skills significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is,...

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Rapid economic growth but rising poverty segregation : will Vietnam meet the SDGs for equitable development?

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Minh Do; Cuong … - 2023

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few decades. Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country's economic growth has not been uniform. Compiling and analyzing new extensive province-level data from the Vietnam...

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Tackling the last hurdles of poverty entrenchment : an investigation of poverty dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06-2016/17

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Raju, Dhushyanth; Tanaka, Tomomi; … - 2024

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana during 2005/06-2016/17, addressing the lack of actual panel...

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Unemployment vouchers versus low-wage subsidies

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … longterm unemployed) and are provided only for a limited period of time. The low-wage subsidies, on the other hand, are granted … relative to low-wage subsidies. Conversely, the greater the danger that workers come to be trapped in dead-end jobs with flat …

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Who wins and who loses from state subsidies?

Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Stepanok, Ignat - 2022

competitive. We implement an approach that allows for the joint estimation of direct and indirect effects of subsidies on … subsidized and non-subsidized firms. We find that firms that receive subsidies experience a boost for productivity. However, our … where other firms are subsidized. These negative externalities depend on the share of firms that receive subsidies in the …

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People, places and public policy : some simple welfare economics of local economic development programs

Kline, Patrick; Moretti, Enrico - 2013

class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target …

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Eco-innovation and employment: a task-based analysis

Elliott, Robert J. R.; Kuai, Wenjing; Maddison, David; … - 2021

This paper provides some of the first evidence of the relationship between eco-innovation and employment. Adopting a O*NET based task approach, in a study of the Dutch firms, we show that eco-innovation has no impact on overall employment. However, compared to non- eco-innovators there is an...

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How sustainable are benefits from extension for smallholder farmers? : evidence from a randomized phase-out of the BRAC program in Uganda

Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2017

Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel randomized phase-out research method, we provide experimental tests of the...

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Equal opportunity through higher education : theory and evidence on privilege and ability

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Tobol, Yossi - 2017

We model a higher education system that admits students according to their admission signal (e.g., matriculation GPA, SAT), which is, in turn, affected by their cognitive ability and socioeconomic background. We show that subsidizing education loans increases neither human capital stock nor...

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