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Inequality during the early years: Child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...

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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills : is Latin America different?

López Bóo, Florencia - 2013

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...

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Good peers have asymmetric gendered effects on female educational outcomes : experimental evidence from Mexico

Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2021

This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...

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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023

This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and...

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The impact of interest in school on educational success in Portugal

Goulart, Pedro; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2011

Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining … educational economics analyses. We rely on two data sets collected in Portugal in 1998 and 2001 and examine the interest …

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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …

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Which immigrants are most innovative and entrepreneurial? Distinctions by entry visa

Hunt, Jennifer - 2010

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...

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Child labor and resistance to change

Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Ottaviano, … - 2003

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

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Who Chooses Which Private Education? Theory and International Evidence

Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele - 2013

Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented students. To assess the empirical relevance of this...

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