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literature, whereby increases in school quality also raises prices by attracting households with more education and income to the … clear strategy for dealing with the correlation of unobserved neighborhood quality with both school quality and neighborhood … -- substantially lower than in prior work -- when the average performance of the local school is increased by 5 percent. There is also …
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This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors …
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trial led to a reduction in school dropout and early marriage. We see large improvements in girls' mental health but only in … go against the status quo - to remain in school longer or marry later, for example. This approach may inadvertently …
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marriage institutions: polygyny, strict monogamy, and serial monogamy (divorce and remarriage). After having identified the …
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In this paper education simultaneously affects growth and income inequality. More education does not necessarily … decrease inequality when the latter is assessed by the Lorenz dominance criterion. Increases in education first increase and … information on the nonlinear relationship between growth and education. …
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Welche Reformen sollten im deutschen Schulsystem umgesetzt werden? In dieser und den kommenden drei Ausgaben des ifo Schnelldienstes berichtet die Artikelserie "Ökonomische Beiträge zur Schuldebatte" über die Befunde zahlreicher Forschungsarbeiten der Abteilung Humankapital und Strukturwandel...
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Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so that they will typically be underprovided both by market mechanisms (because of the impossibility of excluding non-payers from using the services) and by government-run systems...
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We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a country consisting of a large number of heterogeneous regions, each comprising two districts, a city and a village. When districts remain autonomous and local public goods have positive spillover effects on the neighbouring district,...
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two decades. Theory and subsequent empirical evidence have demonstrated that income distribution has a significant impact …
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