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Schooling and labor market consequences of school construction in Indonesia: comment
Roodman, David - 2023
Duflo (2001) exploits a 1970s schooling expansion in Indonesia to estimate the returns to schooling. Under the study's difference-in-differences (DID) design, two patterns in the data-shallower pay scales for younger workers and negative selection in treatment-can violate the parallel trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494394
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A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application
Basu, Kaushik (contributor); Lee, Travis (contributor) - 2008
its use is illustrated with a numerical exercise for the provinces of South Africa. -- Literacy ; education ; inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728252
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Can intensive early childhood intervention programs eliminate income-based cognitive and achievement gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2012
-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned … ; education ; early childhood ; government policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681443
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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
Duncan, Greg J. - 2013
-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089006
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Productivity, Human Capital Formation Policy, and Redistribution : Do Government Policies Promote Productivity?
Sakamoto, Takayuki - 2012
should help productivity. It finds that family and education policies promote productivity. Evidence of pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168510
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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany
Frick, Joachim R. - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013436064
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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called "ethnic Germans" who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are entitled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433832
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Effects of welfare reform on women's voting participation
Dave, Dhaval; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - 2016
operate through employment, education, and income. … do not exercise. This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s on voting of low income … reform on women's voting registration and voting participation during the period during which welfare reform unfolded. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453439
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State merit aid programs and youth labor market attachment
Frisvold, David E.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2018
This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874499
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State merit aid programs and youth labor market attachment
Frisvold, David E.; Pitts, Melinda - 2018
This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868896