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Teacher pay and student performance : evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2014
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434576
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Teacher Pay and Student Performance : Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
Pugatch, Todd - 2014
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043698
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Earnings and consumption dynamics : a nonlinear panel data framework
Arellano, Manuel; Blundell, Richard W.; Bonhomme, Stéphane - 2015
income shocks to consumption. Log-earnings are the sum of a general Markovian persistent component and a transitory …. Consumption is modeled as an age-dependent nonlinear function of assets and the two earnings components. We establish the … nonparametric identification of the nonlinear earnings process and the consumption policy rule. Exploiting the enhanced consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336956
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Earnings and consumption dynamics : a nonlinear panel data framework
Arellano, Manuel; Blundell, Richard W.; Bonhomme, Stéphane - 2015
income shocks to consumption. Log-earnings are the sum of a general Markovian persistent component and a transitory …. Consumption is modeled as an age-dependent nonlinear function of assets and the two earnings components. We establish the … nonparametric identification of the nonlinear earnings process and the consumption policy rule. Exploiting the enhanced consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345793
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Earnings and consumption dynamics : a nonlinear panel data framework
Arellano, Manuel; Blundell, Richard W.; Bonhomme, Stéphane - 2015
income shocks to consumption. Log-earnings are the sum of a general Markovian persistent component and a transitory …. Consumption is modeled as an age-dependent nonlinear function of assets and the two earnings components. We establish the … nonparametric identification of the nonlinear earnings process and the consumption policy rule. Exploiting the enhanced consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326266
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Inter-Country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach
Reddy, Sanjay G.; Visaria, Sujata; Asali, Muhammad - 2014
We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the basic requirements of human beings are superior to the existing money-metric approaches. In this exercise, we implement a uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057114
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Vulnerability in a stochastic dynamic model
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2003 - Rev.
Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334363
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FDI, trade integration and the border effect : evidence from the European Union
Martínez-San Román, Valeriano; Bengoa, Marta; … - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern - horizontal versus vertica l- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371905
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Trade shocks, fertility, and marital behavior
Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - 2021
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to trade on the fertility and marital behavior of German workers. We find that individuals working in sectors that were more affected by import competition from Eastern Europe and suffered worse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502073
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Does educational mismatch affect emigration behaviour?
Wanner, Philippe; Pecoraro, Marco; Tani, Massimiliano - 2021
This paper uses linked Swiss administrative and survey data to examine the relationship between educational mismatch in the labour market and emigration decisions, carrying out the analysis for both Swiss native and previous immigrant workers. In turn, migrants' decisions separate returning home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589903