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Do toll-free highways foster firm formation and employment growth? : results from a quasi-natural experiment

Audretsch, David B.; Dohse, Dirk; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2017

The paper studies the impact of a switch from free to charged highway provision on firm numbers and private sector employment in a cross-section of Portuguese municipalities. It exploits the fact that highway tolls in Portugal were unexpectedly raised in reaction to the financial crisis to...

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The impact of foreign competition on domestic firms' product quality : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in the United States

Lam, Hugo K. S.; Ding, Li; Dong, Zhaoyingzi - In: Journal of operations management 68 (2022) 8, pp. 881-902

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The grant element method of measuring the concessionality of loans and debt relief

Scott, Simon - 2017

The grant element is the “gift portion” of a financial transaction. The mathematical technique for arriving at a precise grant element percentage was first proposed by John Pincus of the RAND Corporation in 1963, and developed mathematically by Göran Ohlin of the Development Centre in 1966....

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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation : a preliminary impact evaluation

Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah - In: IZA journal of labor & development 6 (2017) 4, pp. 1-18

We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the USA in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of...

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Estimating the returns to education using the newest current population survey education questions

Jaeger, David A. - 2002

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Natives, the foreign-born and high school equivalents : new evidence on the returns to the GED

Clark, Melissa A.; Jaeger, David A. - 2002

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Do More-Schooled Women Have Fewer Children and Delay Childbearing? Evidence from a Sample of U.S. Twins

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R. - 2011

Using data on MZ (monozygotic, identical) female twins from the Minnesota Twin Registry, we estimate the causal effect of schooling on completed fertility, probability of being childless and age at first birth, using the within MZ twins methodology. We find strong cross-sectional associations...

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Hirtle, Peter B.; Hudson, Emily; Kenyon, Andrew - 2019

public missions of access, preservation, research, and education. Institutions are developing publicly-accessible websites in …

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The Consequences of Implementing a Child Care Voucher : Evidence from Australia, the Netherlands and USA

Warner, Mildred; Gradus, Raymond - 2009

In the Netherlands, the USA and Australia public funding has promoted parental choice by introducing a voucher for child care, where parents are free to choose the provider. The policy experiments in these three countries and the outcomes provide useful information about the consequences of...

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Health, Education and Economic Growth : Testing for Long-Run Relationships and Causal Links in the United States

Aka, Bedia F.; Dumont, Jean-Christophe - 2009

This paper examines the causal relationships between human capital (Education, and Health) and Economic growth for the …-VAR investigations show bi-directional causality between Education and Health. Causality also exists from Education to Economic growth … show that the long-run dynamics of growth are slightly explained by past health and education level, and the health level …

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