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We conducted a field experiment in Burkina Faso to investigate the impact of sharing obligations within kin networks on entrepreneurial effort. The overall treatment effect we find is insignificant and goes in the opposite direction than previous literature suggests. Ex-post explorative analysis...
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teaching future teammates. Participants perform a real-effort task and decide whether to work independently or join a two … of teaching. High ability workers are more willing to join teams in the absence of revenue sharing and less willing to … is driven by expected future financial gains from teaching rather than some variety of pro-social preferences. This …
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modern empirical agenda. This essay traces the divergent development of econometric teaching and empirical practice, arguing …
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staggered rollout of the Teacher Academy of Maryland career and technical education certificate program across public high …/18% for Black girls), countering a prevailing narrative that teaching leaves one worse off financially relative to other …
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the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable general equilibrium model with overlapping … generations of individuals, and endogenous education decisions. Human capital is made of two substitutable components, experience … and education, both of them evolve endogenously over time. We calibrate this model on the post-war period and run …
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of deviations between required and attained education of workers. Required education is measured as hiring standards set …
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insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
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Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
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location being determined by the level of education subsidies. For low transport costs, firms agglomerate in one region. We … also identify equilibria with partial agglomeration of firms. Finally, we show that the incentives to subsidy education …
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We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...
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