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Dohmen, Thomas; Van Landeghem, Bert G. M. - 2019

Governments are showing an increasing interest in quantitative models that give insights into the determinants of unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced by personality characteristics that are not being...

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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017

It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the “latitude gradient”...

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Zika virus prevalence, correlates and preventive behaviors : new evidence from survey data

Carvalho Júnior, José Raimundo de Araújo; Oliveira, … - 2017

Brazilian health authorities have recommended that pregnant women take meticulous precaution to avoid mosquito bites, and use contraceptive methods to postpone/delay pregnancies. In this article, we present new estimates on the Zika virus prevalence, its correlates and preventive behaviors in...

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The long-run impact of childhood poverty and the mediating role of education

Bellani, Luna; Bia, Michela - 2017

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …

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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017

While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...

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Childhood roots of financial literacy

Grohmann, Antonia; Kouwenberg, Roy; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2015

Financial literacy predicts informed financial decisions, but what explains financial literacy? We use the concept of financial socialization and aim to represent three major agents of financial socialization: family, school and work. Thus we compile twelve relevant childhood characteristics in...

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Measurement error in education and growth regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

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The spillover effects of pollution : how exposure to lead affects everyone in the classroom

Gazze, Ludovica; Persico, Claudia; Spirovska, Sandra - 2020

using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to all education data in North Carolina. We compare siblings …

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The accumulation of human and market capital in the United States: the long view, 1948-2013

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S.; Samuels, Jon D. - 2020

period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …

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The complementary effect of organizational practices and workers' level of education

Pusterla, Filippo - 2020

workers' level of education. Using rm-level panel data covering the period 2002 to 2008, I estimate complementarities among … workers' level of education and a large set of organizational practices aggregated into three domains: decentralization … education: no post-compulsory education, upper-secondary vocational education and train- ing, tertiary vocational education, and …

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