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What Do America’s “Traditional” Forms of School Choice Teach Us about School Choice Reforms?
Hoxby, Caroline Minter - Harvard University <Cambridge, Mass.> / Bureau for … - 1998
taste for education, as wellas race and ethnicity),1 (3) school efficiency, (4) teachers’salaries and teacher unionism, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870211
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Poverty Street: The dynamics of neighbourhood declineand renewal
Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
Poverty Street draws on evidence from twelve of the most disadvantagedneighbourhoods in England and Wales, using Census data from 1971, localadministrative data from 1998 onwards, and over 400 interviews conducted in 1999 and2001.The neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three...
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Talking to Families in East London
Mumford, Katharine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
problems and strengths,children’s education, and the direction of change.[...] …
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annual report 2006
London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
This report covers CASE’s activities duringthe calendar year 2 006 (with financialand related information for the 2 005-06academic year). This is the ninth yearof the Centre’s core funding from theCouncil, which will end in December2007. The Centre is currently exploringalternative ways of...
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Family Income and Tertiary Education Attendance acrossthe EU: An empirical assessment using sibling data
Vandenberghe, Vincent - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
tertiary education than their better-off peers. Thiscorrelation is often used to justify monetary transfers to families with … ability, motivation, education, and other aspects of the youngperson’s experience which differ between families, but are not a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353994
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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’?What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupationalchoices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US … labor forceparticipants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneurnegatively. We show …
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Parental education better helps white than black families escape poverty : national survey of children's health
Assari, Shervin - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-14
encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …
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Sustaining Universal Health Coverage in France: A Perpetual Challenge
Barroy, Helene; Or, Zeynep; Kumar, Ankit; Bernstein, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
While universal health coverage (UHC) offers a powerful goal for a nation, all countries-irrespective of income are struggling with achieving or sustaining UHC. France is a high-income country where HC is in effect universal. Health-related costs are covered by a mix of mandatory social health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937833
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Better Dead than GM-Fed? Information and theEffects of Consumers’ Resistance to GM-Foods inHigh-Income Countries
Huffman, Wallace E.; Rousu, Matthew C.; Shogren, Jason F.; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003
This paper addressed the puzzling resistance of Presidents of southern African countries to food aid in 2002, given near certain starvation and long-term negative health effects of malnutrition of their constituents. First, I show that NGOs led by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418935
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Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Wellbeing ofChildren? Evidence from Canadian Child BenefitExpansions
Milligan, Kevin; Stabile, Mark - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health anddevelopment outcomes of children. One channel through which increasedincome may operate is an improvement in a family’s ability to provide food,shelter, clothing, books, and other expenditure-related inputs to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305125