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The effect of effectiveness : donor response to aid effectiveness in a direct mail fundraising experiment
Karlan, Dean; Wood, Daniel H. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356802
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The effect of effectiveness : donor response to aid effectiveness in a direct mail fundraising experiment
Karlan, Dean; Wood, Daniel H. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010367915
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Political, economic, and humanitarian motivations for PL 480 food aid : evidence from Africa
Ball, Richard - In: Economic development and cultural change 44 (1996) 3, pp. 515-537
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001198072
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The Dynamic Effects of U.S. Food Aid
Barrett, Christopher B.; Mohapatra, Sandeep; Snyder, … - 2015
Although food aid may have important medium-to-long term effects, there is a glaring absence of empirical research on food aid dynamics. This paper applies vector autoregression methods to data from 18 countries over the period 1961-95. We find evidence that food aid has a pronounced J-curve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207534
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Post-secondary attendance by parental income in the U.S. and Canada : what role for financial aid policy?
Belley, Philippe; Frenette, Marc; Lochner, Lance - 2011
This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income - post-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488531
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Secondary childcare in the ATUS : what does it measure?
Stewart, Jay Charles; Allard, Mary Dorinda - 2015
Unlike most of the earlier U.S. time-use surveys, the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) does not collect information on secondary activities. It does, however, include a set of questions asking respondents to identify times when a child under 13 was "in your care." The goal of these questions is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346580
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Post-secondary attendance by parental income in the US and Canada : do financial aid policies explain the differences?
Belley, Philippe; Frenette, Marc; Lochner, Lance - In: The Canadian journal of economics 47 (2014) 2, pp. 664-696
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Parents' incomes and children's outcomes : a quasi-experiment
Akee, Randall; Copeland, William; Keeler, Gordon; … - 2008
Identifying the effect of parental incomes on child outcomes is difficult due to the correlation of unobserved ability, education levels and income. Previous research has relied on the use of instrumental variables to identify the effect of a change in household income on the young adult...
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Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. And Canada : What Role for Financial Aid Policy?
Belley, Philippe - 2011
This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income - post-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122465
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Patterns in Receiving Informal Help with Childcare Among US Parents During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Zang, Emma; Yang, Yining Milly; Calarco, Jessica McCrory - 2022
. Drawing on a novel survey of more than 2,000 U.S. parents, we are the first to examine U.S. parents’ use of informal support … parents received informal support with childcare, mostly from older children and extended family members. The types of … informal care that parents used, however, differed along social class and racial/ethnic lines and did so in ways that were …
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