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In 2017, the federal government invested over $40 billion on university research; another $16 billion came from private sector sources. The expectation is that these investments will bear varied fruits, including outputs like more economic growth, more scientific advances, the training and...
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Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
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Cash transfer programs can provide important financial support for poor households in developing countries and are becoming increasingly common. However the potential for mistargeting of program funds is high. This paper focuses on the social consequences arising from misallocation of resources...
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Through a review of the recent American community development literature, this paper tests the assertion that British … community enterprises (CEs) are fundamentally similar to American community development corporations (CDCs), and therefore, that … CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the current austerity regimes, CEs and community entrepreneurship are …
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Two-thirds of those released from prison in the United States will be re-arrested within three years, creating an incarceration cycle that is detrimental to individuals, families, and communities. There is tremendous public interest in ending this cycle, and public policies can help or hinder...
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. The analysis reveals a strong negative correlation between the influence of the Roma community on an individual member … education of Roma children need to reckon with the influence of Roma community norms on individual choices. …
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, almost all of them has focused on an ex-post impact; leaving aside a second but equally important channel: expectations. This … paper aims to analyze the role of expectations on Peruvian formal and informal labor market; using news as our … a negative relation between expectations towards a stricter labor market and both employment and average income. News …
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We use novel survey data to estimate how personal experiences affect household expectations about aggregate economic … systematically extrapolate from recent locally experienced home prices when asked for their expectations about US house price changes … distribution over expected future national house price movements. We find similar results for labor market expectations, where we …
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about how teachers form expectations and whether their expectations are systematically biased. We investigate whether … student-teacher demographic mismatch affects high school teachers' expectations for students' educational attainment. Using a … student fixed effects strategy that exploits expectations data from two teachers per student, we find that non-black teachers …
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. Amongst employees, optimists earn more. These results are consistent with biased expectations leading to entry errors. As a … test of validity, we find that amongst the married, future divorcees have higher financial expectations but their …
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