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Die Verteilung der Vermögen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland : Analyse und politische Schlußfolgerungen

Ring, Alexander M. - 2000

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001423817

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468154

Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291343

Can intensive early childhood intervention programs eliminate income-based cognitive and achievement gaps?

Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2012

How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned treatment to low birth weight children from both...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291393

Causal effects of monetary shocks: semiparametric conditional independence tests with a multinomial propensity score

Angrist, Joshua D.; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - 2008

Macroeconomists have long been concerned with the causal effects of monetary policy. When the identification of causal effects is based on a selection-on-observables assumption, non-causality amounts to the conditional independence of outcomes and policy changes. This paper develops a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270625

Bandwidth selection and the estimation of treatment effects with unbalanced data

Galdo, Jose; Smith, Jeffrey A.; Black, Dan - 2007

This paper addresses the selection of smoothing parameters for estimating the average treatment effect on the treated using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual is particularly important in regions containing the mass of the treated units, we define and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276772

Inference with imperfect randomization: The case of the Perry Preschool program

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2011

This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278442

Technology and child development: Evidence from the one laptop per child program

Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; … - 2012

Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...

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Grenzen staatlicher Verschuldung

Hellner, Ute - 1996

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000586889

Black market exchange rate, unification of the foreign exchange markets and monetary policy : the case of El Salvador

Saca, Nolvia N. - 1997

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000602422

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