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The impact of school-based financial education on high school students and their teachers : experimental evidence from Peru

Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2018

Using data from a randomized controlled trial in 300 public high schools in Peru, this paper studies the potential of school-based financial education programs for youth. The intervention improves students’ and teachers’ financial knowledge by 0.14 SD and 0.32 SD, respectively. The impact of...

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Macroeconomic effects of over-investment in housing in an aggregative model of economic activity

Hoon, Hian Teck; Phelps, Edmund S. - 2010

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A framework for ex-ante economic impact assessment of tourism investments : an application to Haiti

Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martin; Gachot, Sebastien - 2015

regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social … representative household configuration to enable more robust analysis of tourism investment impacts on poverty and income inequality … evaluation of trade-offs between investment alternatives. Results of this analysis showed a positive impact on sectoral activity …

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The effect of cash transfers to schools on voluntary contributions

Bando Grana, Rosangela - 2014

investment in schools via voluntary contributions. One program provides both a cash grant and a matching scheme for privately …

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Lessons from 15 years of experience with the Dutch tax allowance for energy investments for firms

Ruijs, Arjan; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2013

and sustainable energy production. This Energy Investment Tax Allowance (EIA in Dutch) reduces up-front investment costs … deduct some of the investment costs from their taxable profits. The EIA may also reduce search costs by investors to find … revenues to subsidise investment in energy-efficient technologies and renewable energy is not very different from using on …

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Intended and unintended effects of unconditional cash transfers : the case of Bolivia's Renta Dignidad

Hernani-Limarino, Werner; Mena, Gary - 2015

This document presents a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of Bolivia's Renta Dignidad, a universal and non-contributory old age pension. Causal effects on direct, future, and indirect beneficiaries are identified, taking advantage of a reduction in age of eligibility from 65 to 60 years in...

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