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Unofficial development assistance : a dynamic model of charities' donation income
Arulampalam, Wiji; Backus, Peter; Micklewright, John - 2011
The empirical literature on the determinants of charities donation income, distinguishing the charitable cause, is small. We extend the literature in several ways. First, we focus on overseas development charities allowing us to give more consideration to the particular characteristics of this...
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Productivity dynamics : the role of competition in a service industry
Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019
Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches which compete with one another for union members whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139524
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Health disparities across education : the role of differential reporting error
Cawley, John H.; Choi, Anna - 2015
. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288528
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Educational inequality and the returns to skills
Lundberg, Shelly - 2013
Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125884
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The Scandinavian fantasy : the sources of intergenerational mobility in Denmark and the U.S.
Landersø, Rasmus; Heckman, James J. - 2016
because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493939
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Numeracy and unemployment duration
Dohmen, Thomas; Van Landeghem, Bert G. M. - 2019
Governments are showing an increasing interest in quantitative models that give insights into the determinants of unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced by personality characteristics that are not being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060752
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The spillover effects of pollution : how exposure to lead affects everyone in the classroom
Gazze, Ludovica; Persico, Claudia; Spirovska, Sandra - 2020
using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to all education data in North Carolina. We compare siblings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201425
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The accumulation of human and market capital in the United States: the long view, 1948-2013
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S.; Samuels, Jon D. - 2020
period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …
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The long-run impact of childhood poverty and the mediating role of education
Bellani, Luna; Bia, Michela - 2017
This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636682
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Zika virus prevalence, correlates and preventive behaviors : new evidence from survey data
Carvalho Júnior, José Raimundo de Araújo; Oliveira, … - 2017
Brazilian health authorities have recommended that pregnant women take meticulous precaution to avoid mosquito bites, and use contraceptive methods to postpone/delay pregnancies. In this article, we present new estimates on the Zika virus prevalence, its correlates and preventive behaviors in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621433