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Mauro, Joseph - 2015

Employment, Education or Training). This study attempts to characterize the NEETs by age, gender, education and their activity …

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The Decision to Invest in Child Quality Over Quantity : Household Size and Household Investment in Education in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2015

education phenomenon in Vietnam — as a new measure of household investment in children's quality combining it with traditional … measures of household education investments. To assess the quantity-quality tradeoff, we instrument for family size using the … Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) and other sources show that rural families do indeed invest less in the education of school …

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The Heterogeneous Impacts of Business Cycles on Educational Attainment

Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2016

and not pursuing additional education. Exposure to a higher unemployment rate at age 17 is associated with higher …

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Gender Bias in Education During Conflict : Evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate...

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Validez predictiva de pruebas cortas comúnmente usadas para medir el desarrollo infantil en estudios a gran escala

Rubio-Codina, Marta; Grantham-McGregor, Sally - 2020

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The Main Post-Pandemic Challenges for the Spanish Economy. Appearance Before the Parliamentary Committee for the Economic and Social Reconstruction of Spain after COVID-19. Congres...

de Cos, Pablo Hernández - 2021

a fiscal impulse for the restructuring of the productive system through investment in technological capital, education …

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The Economics and Econometrics of Gene-Environment Interplay

Biroli, Pietro; Galama, Titus J.; von Hinke, Stephanie; … - 2022

Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one’s genes) and nurture (one’s environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now be informed by the ready availability of genetic data in a growing number of social science datasets. This paper...

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Military Veterans and Social Security : 2010 Update

Olsen, Anya - 2015

More than 1 out of 5 adult Social Security beneficiaries has served in the military, and veterans and their families comprise 35 percent of the beneficiary population. Policymakers are particularly concerned with the economic well-being of veterans and their family members, who may receive...

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The economics and econometrics of gene-environment interplay

Biroli, Pietro; Galama, Titus; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2022

Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now be informed by the ready availability of genetic data in a growing number of social science datasets. This paper...

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Genetic Programming for Quantitative Stock Selection

Becker, Ying L. - 2010

We provide an overview of using genetic programming (GP) to model stock returns. Our models employ GP terminals (model decision variables) that are financial factors identified by experts. We describe the multi-stage training, testing and validation process that we have integrated with GP...

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