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Africa and Sweden to illustrate that inequality dynamics cannot be understood without embedding economic factors in the …
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Using a survey of 800 CEOs in 22 emerging economies we show that CEOs' management styles and philosophy vary with the control rights and involvement of the owning family and founder: CEOs of firms with greater family involvement have more hierarchical management, and feel more accountable to...
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This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...
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This working paper presents Chapter 2 of a book that has been submitted to the University of Chicago Press for publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and including...
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This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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any, differentiate teachers with high impact on student achievement in middle school English Language Arts from those with …
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. Language acquisition is an important element in immigrant/native earnings convergence, but most of this convergence is … explained by factors other than language acquisition. These results are confirmed using panel data on wages and knowledge of … with past evidence on language-skill complementarity. Natives and immigrants with high levels of education benefit …
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This paper studies the unintended effect of English language requirement on educational inequality by investigating how …
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Between 1898 and 1948, English was the language of instruction for most post-primary grades in Puerto Rican public … schools. Since 1949, the language of instruction in all grades has been Spanish. We use this policy change to estimate the … effect of English-intensive instruction on the English-language skills of Puerto Ricans. Although naive estimates suggest …
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