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Religion and child health
Chiswick, Barry R.; Mirtcheva, Donka M. - 2010
overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …
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After the farm crisis : religiosity in the rural United States
Orman, Wafa Hakim - 2013
, but almost no impact on urban and suburban areas. I use a difference-in-difference methodology and find that religiosity … agriculture. Chen (2010) describes increased religiosity in Indonesia following the 1998 financial crisis, and this paper … who are not. I hypothesize that the increased religiosity results from religious institutions' ability to provide public …
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Immigrants and religion
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2014
the Economics of Religion and the Economics of Immigration, and distinguishes between religiosity per se and an immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341307
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Microeconometric Evaluations of Education Policies
Siegler, Benedikt - 2015
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes...
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Early retirement incentives and student achievement
Fitzpatrick, Maria D.; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2013
Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of...
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The compositional effect of rigorous teacher evaluation on workforce quality
Cullen, Julie Berry; Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric - 2016
Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education where worker productivity is difficult to assess and manager incentives are muted by political and bureaucratic constraints. In this paper, we study how providing information to principals about teacher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565511
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The Impact of Covid-19 on the U.S. Child Care Market : Evidence from Stay-at-Home Orders
Ali, Umair - 2020
Stay-at-home orders (SAHOs) have been implemented in most U.S. states to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This paper quantifies the short-run impact of these containment policies on the supply of and demand for child care. The child care market may be particularly vulnerable to a SAHO-type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833254
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New Schools and New Classmates : The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment
Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
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Retiree health insurance for public school employees : does it affect retirement?
Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - 2013
Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced "job-lock" in the private sector. I use the introduction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189828
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The impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. child care market : evidence from stay-at-home orders
Ali, Umar; Herbst, Chris M.; Makridis, Christos A. - 2020
Stay-at-home orders (SAHOs) have been implemented in most U.S. states to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This paper quantifies the short-run impact of these containment policies on the supply of and demand for child care. The child care market may be particularly vulnerable to a SAHO-type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221783