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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth : An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - 2005
This paper investigates the impact of openness to trade and higher levels of human capital on the economies of some MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use panel data on 16 countries spanning the 1965 -2000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262187
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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262391
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Population policies, demographic structural changes, and the Chinese household saving puzzle
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291447
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On the dynamics of ethnic fractionalization
Campos, Nauro F.; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy S. - 2007
Does fractionalization change over time? If so, are there any substantial implications for economic performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set with fractionalization measures for 26 former communist countries covering the period from 1989 to 2002. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268366
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Might not be a tomorrow: a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime
Brezina, Timothy; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan - 2008
factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268990
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Children and parents time use: empirical evidence on investment in human capital in France, Italy and Germany
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2008
We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269286
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Mentoring, educational services, and economic incentives: Longer-term evidence on risky behaviors from a randomized trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
-school program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards to attend program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269755
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Adolescent drug use and the deterrent effect of school-imposed penalties
Waddell, Glen R. - 2010
Simple OLS estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are biased if both are determined by unobservable school or individual attributes. The potential reverse causality is also a challenge to retrieving estimates of the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272641
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Cigarette taxes and the social market
Hansen, Benjamin; Sabia, Joseph J.; Rees, Daniel I. - 2011
designed to curb youth smoking. Using state Youth Risk Behavior Survey data, we examine whether recent changes in state … cigarette taxes affected how young smokers obtained their cigarettes. Our estimates suggest that tax increases reduce youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278401
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Fostering the emancipation of young people: Evidence from a Spanish rental subsidy
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa; Oppedisano, Veruska - 2012
In Southern Europe youngsters leave the parental home significantly later than in Northern Europe and United States. In this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' emancipation, family formation, and fertility. The subsidy, introduced in Spain in 2008, is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283930