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North-South displacement effects of environmental regulation: the case of battery recycling

Tanaka, Shinsuke; Teshima, Kensuke; Verhoogen, Eric - 2021

battery recycling to Mexico and on infant health in Mexico. In the U.S., airborne lead dropped sharply near affected plants …, most of which were battery-recycling plants. Exports of used batteries to Mexico rose markedly. In Mexico, production … increased at battery-recycling plants, relative to comparable industries, and birth outcomes deteriorated within two miles of …

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Estimation of joint income-wealth poverty : a sensitivity analysis

Kuypers, Sarah; Marx, Ive - 2016

Most poverty studies build on measures that take account of recurring incomes from sources such as labour or social transfers. However, other financial resources such as savings and assets also affect living standards, often in very significant ways. Previous studies that have sought to...

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Mhbounds - sensitivity analysis for average treatment effects

Becker, Sascha O. (contributor); Caliendo, Marco (contributor) - 2007

Matching has become a popular approach to estimate average treatment effects. It is based on the conditional independence or unconfoundedness assumption. Checking the sensitivity of the estimated results with respect to deviations from this identifying assumption has become an increasingly...

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A theory of employment guarantees : contestability, credibility and distributional concerns

Basu, Arnab K. (contributor); Chau, Nancy H. (contributor); … - 2007

Both raw intuition and past experience suggest that the success of an employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in safeguarding the welfare of the poor depends both on the wage it promises, and the ease with which any worker can gain access. An EGS is thus at once a wage guarantee and a rationing...

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The effectiveness of English secondary schools for pupils of different ability levels

Dearden, Lorraine; Micklewright, John; Vignoles, Anna - 2011

"League table" information on school effectiveness in England generally relies on either a comparison of the average outcomes of pupils by school, e.g. mean exam scores, or on estimates of the average value added by each school. These approaches assume that the information parents and...

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The economic costs of child maltreatment in UK

Conti, Gabriella; Pizzo, Elena; Morris, Stephen; … - 2021

Child maltreatment is a major public health problem with significant consequences for individual victims and for society. In this paper we quantify for the first time the economic costs of fatal and non-fatal child maltreatment in the UK in relation to several short-, medium- and long-term...

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Evaluation of language training programs in Luxembourg using principal stratification

Bia, Michela; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Mercatanti, Andrea - 2018

In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the unemployed. We analyze the effects of a language training program on the re-employment probability...

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Rationalizing rational expectations? : tests and deviations

D'Haultfœuille, Xavier; Gaillac, Christophe; Maurel, Arnaud - 2018

In this paper, we build a new test of rational expectations based on the marginal distributions of realizations and subjective beliefs. This test is widely applicable, including in the common situation where realizations and beliefs are observed in two different datasets that cannot be matched....

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Can value-added measures of teacher performance be trusted?

Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. - 2012

We investigate whether commonly used value-added estimation strategies can produce accurate estimates of teacher effects. We estimate teacher effects in simulated student achievement data sets that mimic plausible types of student grouping and teacher assignment scenarios. No one method...

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Wage differences according to workers' origin: the role of working more upstream in GVCs

Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2021

This paper is the first to investigate the role of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the number of steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) in explaining wage differences according to workers' origin. Using unique linked employer-employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing...

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