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Channeling Remittances to Education : A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador
Ambler, Kate - 2014
We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are … remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051750
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Social Capital, Government Expenditures and Growth
Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M. - 2018
This paper shows that social capital increases economic growth by raising government investment in human capital. We present a model of stochastic endogenous growth with imperfect political agency. Only some people correctly anticipate the future returns to current spending on public education....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920892
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De Facto Fiscal Space and Fiscal Stimulus : Definition and Assessment
Aizenman, Joshua - 2010
We define the notion of a 'de facto fiscal space' of a country as the inverse of the tax-years it would take to repay the public debt. Specifically, we measure the outstanding public debt relative to the de facto tax base, where the latter measures the realized tax collection, averaged across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135878
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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Naidu, Suresh; Restrepo, Pascual; … - 2013
In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail to be realized when democracy is captured by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071520
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
di Giovanni, Julian - 2014
of the world economy calibrated to aggregate and firm-level data. Our framework features cross-country labor productivity … differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056595
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The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous reductions in fertility on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for effects that run through schooling, the size and age structure of the population, capital accumulation, parental time input into child-rearing, and crowding of fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120983
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Donating the Voucher : An Alternative Tax Treatment of Private School Enrollment
Samwick, Andrew A. - 2012
Approximately 10 percent of school-age children in the United States are enrolled in private schools, relieving the financial burden on public school systems, and the taxpayers who support them, of the cost of their education. At present, the tax code does not allow families who provide this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098141
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Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family
Caucutt, Elizabeth M. - 2012
This paper investigates the importance of family borrowing constraints in determining human capital investments in children at early and late ages. We begin by providing new evidence from the Children of the NLSY (CNLSY) which suggests that borrowing constraints bind for at least some families...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098806
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Corrupting Learning : Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio - 2012
This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption involving educational block grants transferred from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105003
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On the Political Economy of Educational Vouchers
Epple, Dennis - 2012
Two significant challenges hamper analyses of the collective choice of educational vouchers. One is the multi-dimensional choice set arising from the interdependence of the voucher, public education spending, and taxation. Second, even absent a voucher, preferences over public spending are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107767