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Long-Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2014
This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on health and behavioral problems. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to identify the effect of Head...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010828422
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480479
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Equality of Opportunity, Heterogeneity and Poverty
Nilsson, William - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005
identical twins, this study takes advantage of the similarity within pairs of twins to separate family specific heterogeneity … whether an individual received social assistance as a measure of poverty, family specific heterogeneity explains between 24 … selection problem can occur. To deal with this problem, and also to take care of unobserved heterogeneity, a sample selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005424018
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Heterogeneity or True State Dependence in Poverty - The tale told by twins
Nilsson, William - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005
similarity within pairs of twins to separate family specific heterogeneity from true state dependence, where the experience of … measure of poverty, family specific heterogeneity explains between 24 and 31 percent of the poverty persistence in the sample. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005424028
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Tracing out the Effects of Demographic Changes on the Income Distribution. The Case of Greater Buenos Aires 1980-2000
Marchionni, Mariana; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2003
During the last two decades fertility decisions have varied significantly and not uniformly along the income distribution. In this paper we study the effects of these demographic changes on two dimensions of the income distribution -poverty and inequality- by applying microeconometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941059
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Educational expansion and income distribution. A Micro-Simulation for Ceará
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe George - 2002
Does more education really mean less poverty and less inequality? How much less? What are the transmission mechanisms? This paper presents the results of a micro-simulation exercise for the Brazilian State of Ceará, which suggests that broad-based policies aimed at increasing educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807284
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Youth poverty: are there relevant differences across regions?
Albert, Cecilia; Davia, María Ángeles - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2013) 25, pp. 67-87
This paper aims to analyze regional variability in youth poverty in Spain. We deploy the Spanish Survey of Income and Living Conditions to conduct a random effects or multilevel logit model. Results point to regional variability due to diverse impact of age, human capital, living arrangements,...
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Tracing out the Effects of Demographic Changes on the Income Distribution. The Case of Greater Buenos Aires 1980-2000
Marchionni, Mariana; Gasparini, Leonardo - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2003
During the last two decades fertility decisions have varied significantly and not uniformly along the income distribution. In this paper we study the effects of these demographic changes on two dimensions of the income distribution -poverty and inequality- by applying microeconometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022025
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Educational expansion and income distribution. A Micro-Simulation for Ceará
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe George - Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade … - 2002
Does more education really mean less poverty and less inequality? How much less? What are the transmission mechanisms? This paper presents the results of a micro-simulation exercise for the Brazilian State of Ceará, which suggests that broad-based policies aimed at increasing educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005816494
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Optimal taxation and public provision for poverty reduction
Kanbur, Ravi; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tuomala, Matti; Ylinen, … - 2015
The existing literature on optimal taxation typically assumes there exists a capacity to implement complex tax schemes, which is not necessarily the case for many developing countries. We examine the determinants of optimal redistributive policies in the context of a developing country that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418605