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Education as a positional good : the role of vouchers
Chen, Zhiqi; West, Edwin G. - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000958164
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Earnings returns to the British education expansion
Devereux, Paul J.; Fan, Wen - 2011
1970 and 1975. Using the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, we find that the expansion caused men to increase education by … about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages; women obtained a slightly greater increase in education and a … obtain instrumental variables estimates of returns to schooling of about 6% for both men and women. -- return to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731763
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Decentralization's effects on education and health: evidence from Ethiopia
Faguet, Jean-Paul; Khan, Qaiser; Kanth, Devarakonda Priyanka - 2019
We explore the effects of decentralization on education and health in Ethiopia using an original database covering all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261934
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Decentralisation's effect on education and health: evidence from Ethiopia
Faguet, Jean-Paul; Khan, Qaiser; Kanth, Devarakonda Priyanka - 2020
We explore the effects of decentralization on education and health in Ethiopia using an original database covering all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261963
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Economic cost comparisons of alternative forms of housing
Gaumnitz, Jack E.; Martin, Stanley A. - 1978
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557711
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Ban the box : the effects of criminal background information on labor market outcomes
Hirashima, Ashley - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541399
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Does social interaction make bad policies even worse? : evidence from renewable energy subsidies
Inhoffen, Justus; Siemroth, Christoph; Zahn, Philipp - 2016
Minimum prices above the market level can lead to ineffcient production and oversupply. We investigate whether this effect is even more pronounced when decision makers are influenced by their social environment. Using data of minimum prices for renewable energy production in Germany, we analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492206
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Social capital and the effectiveness of land use policies : evidence from rural China
Bao, Helen; Jiang, Yan; Wang, Ziyou - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279874
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Labor markets in crisis: the causal impact of Canada's COVD19 economic shutdown on hours worked for workers across the earnings distribution
Koebel, Kourtney; Pohler, Dionne - 2020
We use Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey to explore the labor market impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Specifically, we adopt a unique identification strategy to examine the heterogeneous causal effects of the COVID-19 economic shutdown by governments on hours worked across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225485
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Immigration and redistribution
Concannon, Jeff; Elsner, Benjamin - 2020
One of the fundamental questions in the social sciences is whether modern welfare states can be sustained as countries welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285406