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Do non-monetary prices target the poor? : evidence from a field experiment in India
Hoffmann, Bridget - 2016
This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income....
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Parental investment, school choice, and the persistent benefits of intervention in early childhood
Wang, Lei; Qian, Yiwei; Warrinnier, Nele; Attanasio, … - 2021
We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on child working memory - a key skill of executive...
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Assessing the impact of childcare expansion in Mexico : time use, employment and poverty
Masterson, Thomas; Antonopoulos, Rania; Pires, Luiza Nassif - 2022
time and income poverty (called LIMTIP), the authors of this report empirically analyze the net impact on well-being of the … time poverty. …
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Child care quality and child development
Araujo, María Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017
Development in early childhood predicts schooling and labor market outcomes in adulthood. In this paper we use a fixed effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor, and problem solving skills of infants and toddlers....
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Does public pre-K have unintended consequences on the child care market for infants and toddlers?
Brown, Jessica H. - 2018
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The history of regimes of childhood in Kerala : a preliminary account
Devika, J. - 2023
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Skill level, Cognitive Ability, Unemployment and Welfare
Larsen, Birthe - 2004
This paper examines the implications of that workers may not be able to estimate their true costs of acquiring skills. Consequently, too few workers may acquire skills. This allows for the possibility that subsidizing education is welfare improving. Furthermore, if the presence of skill-biased...
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Public Policy, Start-up Entrepreneurship, and the Market for Venture Capital
Nielsen, Søren Bo; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2006
income taxes as well as capital gains taxes and start-up capital subsidies on the volume and quality of venture capital …
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Environmental and technology policy options in the electricity sector : interactions and outcomes
Fischer, Carolyn; Newell, Richard G.; Preonas, Louis - 2014
correcting R&D market failures, can be useful complements to emissions pricing, but ambitious renewable targets or subsidies seem …
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Strategic subsidies for green goods
Fischer, Carolyn - 2016
(renewable energy deployment) or upstream development and manufacturing of those technologies. The use of subsidies …-particularly upstream ones-is disciplined by World Trade Organization agreements, and its subsidies code lacks exceptions for transboundary … offering production and consumption subsidies in producer countries, allowing that some of the downstream market may lie in …
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