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Dynastic Measures of Intergenerational Mobility

Bargain, Olivier; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2023

types of outcomes, such as (continuous) earnings or (discrete and ordinal) education levels, and captures dynastic … developing country. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings was markedly at the advantage of … women. The bulk of the population came out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education reforms, but the relative …

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Becker meets Ricardo: Multisector matching with social and cognitive skills

McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - 2012

communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …

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Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills

McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …

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Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...

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The Supply of Child Labour

Cigno, Alessandro - 2004

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

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The Supply of Child Labour

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763893

Computer Science for All? The Impact of High School Computer Science Courses on College Majors and Earnings

Liu, Jing; Conrad, Cameron; Blazar, David - 2024

This study provides the first causal analysis of the impact of expanding Computer Science (CS) education in U.S. K-12 … efforts to enhance their participation as policymakers continue to expand CS curricula in K-12 education. …

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A Pure Theory of Population Distribution When Preferences Are Ordinal

Stark, Holger; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2023

We model an environment in which individuals prefer to be in a space in which their rank is higher, be it a social space, a geographical space, a work environment, or any other comparison sphere which we refer to in this paper, and without loss of generality, as a region. When the individuals...

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On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress

Stark, Oded - 2023

Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have sought to identify and implement policies aimed at tackling this social ill. A frequently prescribed remedy is to reduce social stress by reducing income inequality, which is...

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The Transition from Welfare to Work and the Role of Potential Labor Income

Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2004

It is often argued that the high level of welfare claims in Germany causes little incentive for workers with low productivity to seek for a job. We examine the influence of the ratio between estimated potential labor income and the welfare payment level on the probability of leaving social...

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