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This dissertation consists of three essays in labor and development economics. The first essay, “Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa,” quantifies the importance of the option to re-enroll in the school to work transition of South African youth. I estimate a structural...
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This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...
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This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436596
Children who are too large for harness restraints but too small to obtain good restraint from a vehicle seatbelt alone … children to sit more comfortably without slouching. NHTSA recommends that children who do not use harness restraints use … children fit on rear seat cushions. Data from NASS-GES were analyzed to determine the age distribution of rear-seat occupants …
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Photograph of Houston Street looking North in Ft. Worth, Texas. In the center of the street is a boy riding a bicycle between trolley tracks towards trolleys and horse-drawn buggies. On either side of the street are tall buildings with signs such as, "Lyric Theatre", "A.J. Anderson Co Gun Store"...
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Men and women sit at desks and tables in an office interior. Most work at typewriters. A woman at the left operates a duplicating machine, possibly a mimeograph machine. A woman in the background talks on the telephone. A boy in the right background wears a uniform including a cap that reads:...
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mothers and fathers and of women and men without children across cohorts and at different points in their life cycle. There is …
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Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around … preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …
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analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …
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analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009474985