We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …

prisoner’s dilemma in a new task that is easily understood by children and performed during a physical education class. We find …This paper compares cooperation among Columbian and Swedish children aged 9-12. We illustrate the dynamics of the … some evidence that children cooperate more in Sweden than in Colombia. Girls in Colombia are less cooperative than boys …

higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …

improves welfare as it increases the incentives for education. However, too aggressive combating of the informal sector is not …

education is often cited as a determining factor for the labor market success of immigrants. This suggests that entirely … 1988 until 2002 in order to document ethnic differences in education, including grades and field of education, and … education cannot explain persistent employment gaps. However, employment gaps are driven by differences among those with …

The paper formalises the interaction between active labour market programmes and ordinary higher education in a general … equilibrium framework. Both education in prorgammes and ordinary higher education serve to increase the supply of high … higher education. Numerical calibrations of the model show that social welfare is lower in an economy with educational …