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performance is nonlinear. The evidence supports the idea that progressive education promotes social capital. …
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We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995-2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
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's education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … auxiliary findings based on survey data, suggest that neighbourhood turnover damages education through the disruption of local …
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's education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … auxiliary findings based on survey data, suggest that neighbourhood turnover damages education through the disruption of local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886139
performance is nonlinear. The evidence supports the idea that progressive education promotes social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353432
of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and poverty. Specifically, we analyze the distributional incidence of direct … and indirect taxes, direct transfers provided by the social transfers and the school feeding programs, and in …-kind transfers generated by public services in health and education. The results show that Grenada has a tax system that is neutral …
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poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It … or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country … what minimum wage policies alone can achieve in the fight against in-work poverty. The route of raising minimum wages to …
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poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It … or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country … what minimum wage policies alone can achieve in the fight against in-work poverty. The route of raising minimum wages to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279269
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653405