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The rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James Joseph; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2009
This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...
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Why Some Firms Train Apprentices and Many Others Do Not
Wolter, Stefan C.; Mühlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Juerg - 2003
The latest study investigating the cost-benefit ratio of apprenticeship training for Swiss companies has shown that most apprentices offset the cost of their training during their apprenticeship on the basis of the productive contribution of the work they perform. Given this outcome, it is worth...
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Improving Nurse Retention in the British National Health Service: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit
Shields, Michael A.; Ward, Melanie E. - 2000
In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses,...
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Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women
Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002
We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various …
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A public good version of the collective household model: an empirical approach with an application to British household data
van Klaveren, Chris; van Praag, Bernard; Maassen van … - 2008
In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The … novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and … are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …
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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
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The Literacy Hour
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra - 2004
In this paper, we evaluate the effect of the literacy hour in English primary schools on pupil attainment. The National Literacy Project (NLP) was undertaken in about 400 English primary schools in 1997 and 1998. We compare the reading and overall English attainment of children in NLP schools as...
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Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life : The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias
Ashenfelter, Orley C.; Greenstone, Michael - 2004
that the same issues plague the estimation of monetary trade-offs regarding safety in other contexts. …
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The Subjective Costs of Health Losses due to Chronic Diseases: An Alternative Model Appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2001
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...
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Above and beyond the call: long-term real earnings effects of British male military conscription during WWII and the post-war years
Hart, Robert A. - 2009
This paper adds to the literature on the relationship between military service and long-term real earnings. Based on a regression discontinuity design it compares the earnings of age cohorts containing British men who were required to undertake post-war National Service with later cohorts who...
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