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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned treatment to low birth weight children from both...
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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
By how much would an intensive two-year center-based Abecedarian-type intervention, begun at age one, close income-based gaps in cognitive ability and school readiness? To generate estimates, we draw data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned a treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279253
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Can intensive early childhood intervention programs eliminate income-based cognitive and achievement gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2012
How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned treatment to low birth weight children from both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291393
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Informality as a Stepping Stone: A Search-Theoretical Assessment of Informal Sector and Government Policy
Tumen, Semih - 2016
This paper develops a model of sequential job search to understand the factors determining the effect of tax and enforcement policies on the size (i.e., employment share) of the informal sector. The focus is on the role of informal sector as a stepping stone to formal jobs. I argue that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525047
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Entrepreneurship in the Shadows: Wealth Constraints and Government Policy
Tumen, Semih - 2016
I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking government policy as given. The government has access to two policy tools: taxes on formal business...
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We Don't Need No Education: The Effect of Natural Resource Income Shocks on Human Capital
Gradstein, Mark; Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2020
We explore the effects of persistent income shocks on human capital using oil price fluctuations in a large sample of relevant African countries and employing micro data from multiple waves of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). Theoretically, such shocks enable human capital investment via...
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468154
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884235