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Parents’ Incomes and Children’s Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Copeland, William; Keeler, Gordon; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Identifying the effect of parental incomes on child outcomes is difficult due to the correlation of unobserved ability, education levels and income. Previous research has relied on the use of instrumental variables to identify the effect of a change in household income on the young adult...
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Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - 2016
This paper examines gender differences in entrepreneurial performance and their links with start-up capital utilizing a search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. The results show that entrepreneurs of both genders with higher start-up capital record better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559707
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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262477
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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762377
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262329
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A Product Market Theory of Worker Training
Gersbach, Hans; Schutzler, Armin - 2001
We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then make wage offers for each others? trained employees and finally engage in imperfect product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262533
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Dealer Pricing of Consumer Credit
Bertola, Giuseppe; Hochguertel, Stefan; Koeniger, Winfried - 2002
Interest rates on consumer lending are lower when funds are tied to purchase of a durable good than when they are made available on an unconditional basis. Further, dealers often choose to bear the financial cost of their customers? credit purchases. This paper interprets this phenomenon in...
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Do Friendship Networks Improve Female Education?
Hahn, Youjin; Islam, Asadul; Patacchini, Eleonora; … - 2017
documents that placing students into study groups with their friends may improve learning, especially for low-ability females. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653402
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School Feeding and Learning Achievement: Evidence from India's Midday Meal Program
Chakraborty, Tanika; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2016
We study the effect of the world's largest school feeding program on children's learning outcomes. Staggered … that midday meals have a dramatic positive effect on learning achievement: children with up to 5 years of primary school … improvement including enrollment and nutrition-learning effects, heterogeneous responses by socio-economic status, complementary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525017
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Crime and Human Capital in India
Sharma, Smriti; Sunder, Naveen - 2024
district-level data on the incidence of various types of crime with a nationally representative survey on learning achievement … the crime-learning gradient. We show that an increase in violent crime is associated with lower achievement in reading and … math, while non-violent crimes have no discernible correlation with learning outcomes. The effects are short-lived, driven …
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