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This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation between genetic distance and economic variables mean? Using the measure of genetic distance, a...
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also identify equilibria with partial agglomeration of firms. Finally, we show that the incentives to subsidy education …
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of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage … care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on … relationship between child care subsidies and child development. In particular, our results suggest that subsidy receipt in the …
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A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both … fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … of family well-being. In addition, we attempt to handle the possibility of non-random selection into subsidy receipt by …
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Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the Statistics Canada Family …
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Administrative data on the universe of employees, firms, and unemployment insurance (UI) recipients in Canada over an …
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In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who successfully completed their programs in Canadian community colleges (CEGEPs in Quebec) in 1990 and 1995. Over...
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There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper proposes a test for differential reporting in ordered...
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Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic …
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Canada?s treasury circa 1996 over their life cycle. Naturalized citizens from OECD countries contributed the largest public …
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