Showing 1 - 10 of 11
Argentina. Standard methods usually focus on mean effects, or explore distributive effects by either making stringent modeling … exibility and usefulness of UQR methods. Our application for the case of Argentina shows that education contributed positively … to increased inequality in Argentina, mostly due to the effect of strongly heterogeneous effects of education on earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429326
transfer program targeted at young children of unemployed and informal workers launched in Argentina in late 2009. Evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011854013
This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina’s income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941056
Argentina has traditionally stood out in terms of educational outcomes among its Latin American counterparts. Schooling … Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH) a massive conditional cash transfer program implemented in 2009 in Argentina may be partly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429451
The harshness of punishment society chooses to impose on crime offenders is mandated by law. However, the quality of life in prison can make this punishment harsher. This creates a variation in the severity of punishment which is not legislated and may differ from society's taste for penalties....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429299
We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276780
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272652
years later, we examine whether these goals were met by reviewing quantitative articles from sociology and economics. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882333
The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the … global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety of economics … the world faces today. This is a practical guide for (re-)designing economics courses and programs. Based on a clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337415
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an … discriminating against female applicants. What we find is that girls are less likely to apply for a bachelor's degree in Economics to … Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398266