Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 269
Cover Image
Do vocational high school graduates have better employment outcomes than general high school graduates?
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2017
This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likeli-hood relative to … employment likelihood relative to GHS degree. However, once we include town-specific socio-economic variables to control for … education, employment, and business activity levels in the town, the IV estimates get much smaller and become statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607468
Cover Image
The role of weather on schooling and work of youngaAdults in Madagascar
Marchetta, Francesca; Sahn, David E.; Tiberti, Luca - In: American journal of agricultural economics 101 (2019) 4, pp. 1203-1227
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115332
Cover Image
School or work? : the role of weather shocks in Madagascar
Marchetta, Francesca; Sahn, David E.; Tiberti, Luca - 2017
Climate change is particularly important issue in Madagascar, a poor island nation that is frequently affected by droughts, floods and cyclones. We examine the impact of weather events on schooling and work among a cohort of teens and young adults by estimating a bivariate probit model using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752133
Cover Image
School or work? : the role of weather shocks in Madagascar
Marchetta, Francesca; Sahn, David E.; Tiberti, Luca - 2018
We examine the impact of rainfall variability and cyclones on schooling and work among a cohort of teens and young adults by estimating a bivariate probit model, using a panel survey conducted in 2004 and 2011 in Madagascar − a poor island nation that is frequently affected by extreme weather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820991
Cover Image
School district expenditure behavior
Carroll, Stephen J. - 1976
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002303643
Cover Image
Does demand for children's schooling quantity and quality in Indonesia differ across expenditure classes?
Alisjahbana, Armida S. - In: Journal of population : publ. twice a year by the … 5 (1999) 1, pp. 87-114
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001914645
Cover Image
Does demand for children's schooling quantity and quality in Indonesia differ across expenditure classes?
Alisjahbana, Armida S. - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001435985
Cover Image
Milk consumption in the nation's schools
Anderson, Kenneth E. - 1958
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001538238
Cover Image
Are Governmental Expenditures Also Sticky? Evidence from the Operating Expenditures of Public Schools
Wu, TsingZai C. - 2019
Existing research on cost stickiness focuses primarily on for-profit companies. This study investigates cost behavior in the public sector, a new setting that deserves more research attention. Using unique data from public schools in Taiwan, we find that operating expenditures of public schools...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861679
Cover Image
School Food Policy Affects Everyone : Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program
Handbury, Jessie; Moshary, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the private market response to the National School Lunch Program, documenting economically meaningful spillovers to non-recipients. We focus on the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), an expansion of the lunch program under the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Under the CEP,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660062