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State-building on the Margin : An Urban Experiment in Medellin

Blattman, Christopher; Duncan, Gustavo; Lessing, Benjamin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Medellin's government wanted to raise its efficacy, legitimacy, and control. The city identified 80 neighborhoods with weak state presence and competing armed actors. In half, they increased non-police street presence tenfold for two years, offering social services and dispute resolution. In...

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Closing the Productivity Gap with the US : Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe

Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies to what extent the transfer of US managerial technologies to Europe after World War II contributed to closing the gap with US businesses. Between 1952 and 1958, the US government sponsored the Productivity Program, which promoted management training trips for European managers...

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Unions and Wage Inequality : The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

Card, David - 2018

We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...

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"Public Sector Pension Governance and Performance"

Mitchell, Olivia S. - 1994

This paper investigates the determinants of public sector pension plan investment and funding behavior. Its goal is to draw lessons which may be used to improve the design and governance of public pensions. Plan performance is related to characteristics of the pension systems' governance...

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Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility : The United States vs. The United Kingdom

Blank, Rebecca M. - 1993

This paper investigates whether a larger public sector limits labor market adjustment, using data from the United States and the United Kingdom, two countries with quite different public/private employment trends. The results indicate that the two countries have a similar mix of occupations and...

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Pension Funding in the Public Sector

Mitchell, Olivia S. - 1991

This paper explores the determinants of pension funding in the public sector. We formulate and test several hypotheses about the determinants of public employer pension funding practices, using a new data set describing financial and other characteristics of state, local, and teacher plans. The...

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Education, Segregation and Marital Sorting : Theory and an Application to UK Data

Fernandez, Raquel - 2001

This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter … impact in the UK than in the US as a result of the fertility and education transmission process. When the relative supply of …

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Education and Social Capital

Helliwell, John F. - 1999

Education is usually the most important predictor of political and social engagement. Over the last half century … between the relative education having positive effects on participation. Using a broad range of evidence, including the data … used by NJS-B, this paper shows that increases in average education levels improve trust and do not reduce participation …

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Income and the Utilization of Long-Term Care Services : Evidence from the Social Security Benefit Notch

Goda, Gopi Shah - 2010

This paper estimates the impact of income on the long-term care utilization of elderly Americans using a natural experiment that led otherwise similar retirees to receive significantly different Social Security payments based on their year of birth. Using data from the 1993 and 1995 waves of the...

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Willingness to Pay for Drug Rehabilitation : Implications for Cost Recovery

Bishai, David - 2006

Conclusions: Clients' median willingness to pay for drug rehabilitation fell short of the average program costs of $82 per week, which reinforces the need for continued subsidization as drug treatment has high positive externalities. Clients will pay more for higher rates of treatment success...

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