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Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from College Openings and Longitudinal Data
Currie, Janet - 2002
We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …
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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020
intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections … mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India …
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Occupy Government : Democracy and the Dynamics of Personnel Decisions and Public Finances
Barbosa, Klenio - 2019
We study the causes and consequences of patronage in Brazilian cities since the country's re-democratization. We test key mechanisms - fiscal rules, accountability, political ideology, and rent-seeking - and estimate the consequences of patronage for public finances. Our data consist of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479457
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Charity and Favoritism in the Field : Are Female Economists Nicer (to Each Other)?
Abrevaya, Jason - 2010
Using a very large sample of matched author-referee pairs, we examine how the gender of referees and authors affects the former's recommendations. Relying on changing matches of authors and referees, we find no evidence of gender differences among referees in charitableness toward authors; nor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462680
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Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness, and Consequences for Policy
Best, Michael Carlos - 2017
How much of the variation in state effectiveness is due to the individuals and organizations responsible for implementing policy? We investigate this question and its implications for policy design in the context of public procurement, using a text-based product classification method to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455331
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The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program : Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
Heckman, James J. - 2003
This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups, and demonstrate that variables often have very different...
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Estimating the demand for business training : evidence from Jamaica
Maffioli, Alessandro; McKenzie, David J.; Ubfal, Diego - 2020
Business training programs are typically offered for free. Charging for training provides potential benefits including financial sustainability, but little is known about how price affects the demand for training. This study conducted two experiments in Jamaica using the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388733
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Continuous Training in Germany
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 1996
Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel, I describe the incidence, attributes, and outcomes of continuous training received by workers in Germany between 1986 and 1989. Further training is primarily a white collar phenomenon, is concentrated among the more highly educated, and in the...
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Child nutrition, child health, and school enrollment : a longitudinal analysis
Alderman, Harold; Behrman, Jere R.; Lavy, Victor; … - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000955013
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Orphans and Ebola : estimating the secondary impact of a public health crisis
Evans, David K.; Popova, Anna - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484757