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Social development – a multidimensional approach to social development analysis. Country level evidence
Lechman, Ewa - 2013
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011783002
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The politics of inequality and redistribution in Latin America's post-adjustment era
Roberts, Kenneth M. - 2012
Declining social and economic inequalities since the late 1990s coincided with several basic shifts in Latin America's political landscape, including an electoral turn to the left and a revival of social mobilization from below. These shifts helped to 'repoliticize' inequality and return...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319871
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The impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises on households in Nigeria: A retrospective approach for research enquiry
Chiripanhura, Blessing M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2013
This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household welfare. Our results indicate that aggregate shocks have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319941
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The impact of family income on child achievement: Evidence from the earned income tax credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2012
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284026
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Validez concurrente y viabilidad de pruebas cortas comúnmente usadas para medir el desarrollo infantil temprano en estudios a gran escala: Metodología y resultados
Rubio-Codina, Marta; Araujo, María Caridad; Attanasio, … - 2016
Medir el desarrollo infantil temprano (DIT) mediante pruebas estándar de diagnóstico en estudios a gran escala resulta difícil y costoso. Por esto, con frecuencia se utilizan pruebas de tamizaje multidimensionales y pruebas que miden un solo dominio del desarrollo como alternativas (nos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535793
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Concurrent Validity and Feasibility of Short Tests Currently Used to Measure Early Childhood Development in Large Scale Studies: Methodology and Results
Rubio-Codina, Marta; Araujo, María Caridad; Attanasio, … - 2016
In low- and middle-income countries (LIMCs) measuring early childhood development (ECD) with standard tests in large scale surveys (i.e. evaluations of interventions) is difficult and expensive. Multi-dimensional screeners and single-domain tests ('short tests') are frequently used as...
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A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application
Basu, Kaushik (contributor); Lee, Travis (contributor) - 2008
its use is illustrated with a numerical exercise for the provinces of South Africa. -- Literacy ; education ; inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728252
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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe
Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - 2009
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled …"Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled … capital ; labor supply ; retirement ; training ; dynamic complementarity ; inequality ; returns to education ; (non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932493
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The impact of family income on child achievement : evidence from the earned income tax credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2012
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548078
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The politics of inequality and redistribution in Latin America's post-adjustment era
Roberts, Kenneth M. - 2012
Declining social and economic inequalities since the late 1990s coincided with several basic shifts in Latin America's political landscape, including an electoral turn to the left and a revival of social mobilization from below. These shifts helped to 'repoliticize' inequality and return...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485749