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Institutions vs. Policies : A Tale of Two Islands

Henry, Peter Blair - 2008

for explaining differences in their subsequent economic development. Barbados and Jamaica provide a striking counter … 1960 to 2002, Barbados' GDP per capita grew roughly three times as fast as Jamaica's. Consequently, the income gap between … Barbados and Jamaica is now almost five times larger than at the time of independence. Since their property rights and legal …

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External Capital Structures and Oil Price Volatility

Burger, John D. - 2010

oil price shocks. We study two Caribbean economies highly vulnerable to oil price shocks, an oil-importer (Jamaica) and an …

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Does Education Prevent Job Loss During Downturns? Evidence from Exogenous School Assignments and COVID-19 in Barbados

Beuermann, Diether W.; Bottan, Nicolas L.; Hoffmann, Bridget - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Barbados to explore the causal impact of improved education on job loss during this period. Using a regression discontinuity … for more selective schools in Barbados attain more years of education than those that scored just below (essentially …

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What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output

Beuermann, Diether - 2018

Is a school's impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value school impacts on tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first question, we exploit quasi-random school assignments and data from Trinidad and Tobago. We construct...

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Can Higher-Achieving Peers Explain the Benefits to Attending Selective Schools? : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2010

Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I credibly estimate both (1) the effect of attending schools with higher-achieving peers, and (2) the direct effect of short-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same...

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Ability-grouping and Academic Inequality : Evidence From Rule-based Student Assignments

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2009

In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after fifth grade based on achievement tests, leading to large differences in the school environments to which students of differing initial levels of achievement are exposed. Using both a regression discontinuity design and...

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Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection : Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2011

Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm allowing one to address self-selection bias and...

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Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31

Gertler, Paul J.; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We report the labor market effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation intervention at age 31. The study is a … neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica. Implemented in 1987-1989, treatment consisted of a two-year home-based intervention designed to … original sample 30 years after the intervention, both still living in Jamaica and migrated abroad. We find large and …

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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774

Burnard, Trevor - 2017

wealth Jamaica was the most unequal place in the pre-modern world. Furthermore, all of these characteristics applied to the …

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Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation : a 20-year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica

Gertler, Paul - 2013

We find large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that taught...

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