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Culture and human capital investments: evidence of an unconditional cash transfer program in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica - 2008
in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity …
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Estimating the impacts of Bolivia's protected areas on poverty
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier; Hanauer, Merlin M. - 2012
proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …
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Bureaucratic delay, local-level monitoring, and delivery of small infrastructure projects: Evidence from a field experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - 2012
-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting …
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The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
Verashchagina, Alina; Pastore, Francesco - 2004
This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261890
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Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals
Habermalz, Steffen - 2003
This paper develops a multi-period model, in which workers are matched with jobs according to imperfect educational signals and in which their subsequent productivities depend on both their inherent ability and on the quality of the job match. It outlines a sequential process, in which underpaid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261976
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An Examination of Sheepskin Effects Over Time
Habermalz, Steffen - 2003
Previous empirical specifications are not flexible enough to capture the true pattern of sheepskin effects over time. If the quality of the match between the worker and the job contributes to earnings and if higher ability workers more easily reveal their true productivity, sheepskin effects...
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Measuring the Returns to the GED : Using an Exogenous Change in GED Passing Standards as a Natural Experiment
Lofstrom, Magnus; Tyler, John - 2004
In this paper, we exploit an exogenous change in the passing standard required to obtain a General Educational Development (GED) credential to identify the impact of the GED on the quarterly earnings of male dropouts, utilizing the Texas Schools Micro Data Panel (TSMP). These unique data contain...
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The Knowledge Lift : The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels
Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vroman, Susan - 2005
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...
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Household Characteristics, Ability and Education: Evidence´ from a Dynamic Expected Utility Model
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Joergen - 1999
We estimate a Dynamic Programming model of the decision between continuing schooling or entering the labor market using a panel from the National Longitudinal Survey (NLSY). The model, set in an expected utility framework (with a power utility function), fits data on both schooling attainments...
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Subjective Discount Rates, Intergenerational Transfers and the Return to Schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999
Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...
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