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The impact of comprehensive student support on crime
Lavecchia, Adam; Oreopoulos, Philip; Spencer, Noah - 2024
This study finds substantial reductions to criminal activity from the introduction of a comprehensive high school support program for disadvantaged youth living in the largest public housing project in Toronto. The program, called Pathways to Education, bundles supports such as regular coaching,...
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Education and credit: a Matthew effect
Delēs, Manthos D.; Deli, Yota D.; Peydró, José-Luis; … - 2022
a key role for investments in innovation, intangible assets, and lower within-firm pay inequality. …
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Education policies and taxation without commitment
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2014 - This version: May 27, 2014
We study the implications of limited commitment on education and tax policies chosen by benevolent governments. Individual wages are determined by both innate abilities and education levels. Consistent with real world practices, the government can decide to subsidize different levels of...
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Do schooling reforms also improve long-run health?
Madden, David - 2015
An association between health and education has been well-established empirically. It is not clear however whether this represents a causal effect and, if so, in which direction. Recent research has attempted to unravel this by using educational reforms, such as compulsory schooling laws, as...
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Can early intervention have a sustained effect on human capital?
Doyle, Orla - 2020
Evidence on the sustained effect of early intervention is inconclusive, with many studies experiencing a dissolution of treatment effects once the program ends. Using a randomized trial, this paper examines the impact of Preparing for Life (PFL), a pregnancy to age five home visiting and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212899
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The first 2,000 days and child skills : evidence from a randomized experiment of home visiting
Doyle, Orla - 2017
Using a randomized experiment, this study investigates the impact of sustained investment in parenting, from pregnancy until age five, in the context of extensive welfare provision. Providing the Preparing for Life program, incorporating home visiting, group parenting, and baby massage, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685716
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Gender differences in STEM persistence after graduation
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
Much attention is focused on finding ways to encourage females to study STEM in school and college but what actually happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM persistence over the career. We find a continuous...
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Worker well-being before and during the COVID-19 restrictions : a longitudinal study in the UK
Pelly, Diane; Doyle, Orla; Daly, Michael; Delaney, Liam - 2021
The potential impact of COVID-19 restrictions on worker well-being is currently unknown. In this study we examine 15 well-being outcomes collected from 621 full-time workers assessed before (November, 2019 - February, 2020) and during (May-June, 2020) the COVID-19 pandemic. Fixed effects...
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Health and health inequality during the Great Recession : evidence from the PSID
Wang, Huixia; Wang, Chenggang; Halliday, Timothy - 2016 - Last update: September 8, 2016
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An alternative measure of economic inequality in the light of optics
Majumder, Amlan - 2014
presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from the ideal condition. In this paper, I try to measure economic … inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … add all to propose an overall measure of economic inequality, which appears to be a standardised measure of the length of …
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