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Skill Formation and the Trouble with Child Non-Cognitive Skill Measures
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
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A Note on the Importance of Normalizations in Dynamic Latent Factor Models of Skill Formation
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
In this paper we highlight an important property of the translog production function for the identification of treatment effects in a model of latent skill formation. We show that when using a translog specification of the skill technology, properly anchored treatment effect estimates are...
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Measuring immigration policies: the IMPIC database
Helbling, Marc; Bjerre, Liv; Römer, Friederike; Zobel, … - In: European Political Science 16 (2017) 1, pp. 79-98
, conceptualisation, measurement and aggregation. Moreover, they are for the most part limited to individual policy fields or there is a …. Recently, there have been a series of studies that have proposed policy indices that allow for large-N analyses. It appears …
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The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) Dataset: Technical Report V2
Berger, Valentin; Bjerre, Liv; Breyer, Magdalena; … - 2024
The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) database includes data on migration policies for 33 OECD countries and the period 1980-2018. The dataset is presented in Helbling, Marc, Liv Bjerre, Friederike Römer and Malisa Zobel (2016) "Measuring Immigration Policies: The IMPIC-Database",...
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Resource and Revenue Management in Nonprofit Operations
de Véricourt, Francis; Lobo, Miguel Sousa - 2008
Nonprofit firms sometimes engage in for-profit activities for the purpose of generating revenue to subsidize their …. We compare the performance of the optimal threshold policy with heuristics that may be more appealing to managers of … nonprofit organizations, and assess the value of banking and of dynamic pricing through numerical experiments. …
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Are nonprofit entrepreneurs also Jacks-of-all-trades?
Cho, Insoo - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-15
We investigate whether nonprofit and for-profit entrepreneurs share similar observable and unobservable skills. In JLE … for-profit and nonprofit venture. Positive correlation in the errors that jointly affect for-profit and nonprofit start …
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Nonprofits and pass-throughs: Performance comparison
Hull, Robert; Van Dalsem, Shane A. - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-43
This paper's purpose is to compare nonprofits with pass-throughs in terms of valuation, leverage, and growth. To achieve this purpose, we use the Capital Structure Model. This model determines maximum firm valuation through incorporating real data (tax rates, credit spreads, and historical...
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Value Oriented Organizations with Value Neutral Hierarchies
Echeverría, Manuel - 2012
organization without endowments under asymmetric information. The non-profit is able to adapt its organization by establishing a …
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Leasehold: An institutional framework for understanding nonprofit governance in a civil society context
Greller, Martin M. - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 3, pp. 165-176
Nonprofit organizations play a role in the creation of a society that is civil, and it is an important one that neither …
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Exploring lobbying practices in Israel's nonprofit advocacy organizations: An application of the libby lobbying model
Libby, Patricia; Deitrick, Laura; Mano, Rita - In: Administrative Sciences 7 (2017) 4, pp. 1-12
Nonprofit and voluntary associations around the world are the primary vehicle for representing the voices of citizens … in the policy-making process. As scholars who are committed to advancing the role of civil society and the citizen, it is … advance best practices for policy advocacy regardless of the origin of those advocacy models. This research introduces a …
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