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Education Research and Administrative Data
Figlio, David N. - 2015
Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012036
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Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...
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New Technology in Schools : Is There a Payoff?
Machin, Stephen J.; McNally, Sandra; Silva, Olmo - 2021
Despite its high relevance to current policy debates, estimating the causal effect of Information Communication Technology (ICT) investment on educational standards remains fraught with difficulties. In this paper, we exploit a change in the rules governing ICT funding across different school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317506
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Inter-Ethnic Fertility Spillovers and the Role of Forward-Looking Behavior : Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia
Beam, Emily - 2016
rates in Malaysia induced by the Chinese lunar calendar, we document a 12.7-percent rise in births among ethnic Chinese in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978161
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Unemployment Insurance, Job Search and Informal Employment
Margolis, David N. - 2012
the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with … are estimated to replicate the structure of the labor market in Malaysia in 2009 and the distribution of earnings for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104659
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Gender Differences in the Effects of Vocational Training : Constraints on Women and Drop-Out Behavior
Cho, Yoonyoung - 2013
We provide experimental evidence on the effects of vocational and entrepreneurial training for Malawian youth, in an environment where access to schooling and formal sector employment is extremely low. We track a large fraction of program drop-outs – a common phenomenon in the training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081795
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Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Shen, Chi; Lai, Sha; Deng, Qiwei; Cao, Dan; Zhao, Dantong; … - 2023
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years …. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services … provider in China, we applied a multilevel linear model and a geographically weighted regression to examine spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346209
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Exposure to the One-Child Policy and Fertility Among Chinese Immigrants to the Us
Lin, Siyuan; Argys, Laura; Averett, Susan L. - 2023
We examine whether women exposed to China's one-child policy (OCP) change their fertility decisions when they migrate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346263
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China's 40 Years Demographic Dividend and Labor Supply : The Quantity Myth
Meng, Xin - 2023
China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a larger share of working age population (WAPS …). Currently, this dividend is slipping away and many in China are very concerned. Against this background I set out to examine the … contributions of various dimensions of China's changing WAPS and its impact on economic growth. I show that between 1982-2015 the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348145
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Husbands' Wages and Married Women's Labor Supply in Urban China
ZHU, Mengbing; LI, Yi; Xing, Chunbing - 2023
urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of … study helps us better understand the trend of the female labor supply in urban China. It sheds light on the impact of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350454