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The legacy of conflict : regional deprivation and school performance in Northern Ireland
Ferguson, Neil T. N.; Michaelsen, Maren - 2013
, education and crime deprivation, and not financial deprivation, play a significant role in determining outcomes. This confirms … income redistribution will be unsuccessful in improving education outcomes of those exposed to deprivation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766128
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What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015
Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467809
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Learning the hard way : the effect of violent conflict on student academic achievement
Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; Miaari, Sami H. - 2014
We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415444
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Does violent conflict affect labor supply of farm households? : the Nigerian experience
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2021
Nigeria has experienced bouts of violent conflict in different regions since its independence leading to significant loss of life. In this paper, we explore the average effect of exposure to violent conflict generally on labor supply in agriculture. Using a nationally representative panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593079
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213777