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Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia
Olken, Benjamin A. - 2012
This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives in improving the efficacy of aid programs. Villages in a randomly-chosen one-third of subdistricts received a block grant to improve 12 maternal and child health and education...
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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987, eligibility for aid from the International Development Association (IDA) has been based partly...
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Making Progress on Foreign Aid
Qian, Nancy - 2014
Foreign aid is one of the most important policy tools that rich countries use for helping poor countries to improve population well-being and facilitate economic and institutional development. The empirical evidence on its benefits is mixed and has generated much controversy. This paper presents...
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Politics and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
Boone, Peter David - 1995
repressive. But liberal political regimes and democracies, ceteris paribus, have on average 30% lower infant mortality than the …
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Mortality Risk and Educational Attainment of Black and White Men
Gan, Li - 2004
differences in their mortality risks. A dynamic optimal stopping-point life cycle model is examined, in which group …-level mortality risk plays an important role in determining individual-level mortality risk, health expenditure,and the amount of … schooling. The model is calibrated to quantify the effect of mortality risks on schooling by taking the black and white male …
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Longevity, Education, and Income : How Large is the Triangle?
Bleakley, Hoyt - 2018
mortality. Even for implausibly large responses of education to survival differences, almost all of today's low …
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Limited Life Expectancy, Human Capital and Health Investments : Evidence from Huntington Disease
Oster, Emily - 2012
disorder with large impacts on mortality. We compare investment levels for individuals who have ex ante identical risks of HD …
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Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply
Autor, David - 2017
While a mature literature finds that Disability Insurance (DI) receipt discourages work, the welfare implications of these findings depend on two rarely studied economic quantities: the full cost of DI allowances to taxpayers, summing over DI transfer payments, benefit substitution to or from...
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Borrowing Constraints, College Aid, and Intergenerational Mobility
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004
The current level and form of subsidization of college education is often rationalized by appeal to capital constraints on individuals. Because borrowing against human capital is difficult, capital constraints can lead to nonoptimal outcomes unless government intervenes. We develop a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467979
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The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes : A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program
Guryan, Jonathan - 2020
In response to budget problems, many urban school systems reduced resources for getting students to come to school, like truancy officers. Chicago, for instance, went from 150 truancy officers down to, in 1991, a total of zero. Is that a good idea? We explore here the effects of increased...
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