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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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Small enterprises as an instrument of enjoyment of the economic human rights in Egypt

Alasrag, Hussien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

product, coupled with a low level of education and lack of output to the skills needed to achieve competitive at the …

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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...

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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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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called "ethnic Germans" who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are entitled...

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Is Prescott right?: welfare state policies and the incentives to work, learn and retire

Jacobs, Bas - 2008

endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not only labor supply, but also education and retirement decisions. Actuarially … unfair pensions further exacerbate labor tax distortions on retirement. Education subsidies can nevertheless cushion the … adverse impact of taxation on skill formation. Feedbacks between education, labor supply, and retirement are important. The …

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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe

Heckman, James Joseph; Jacobs, Bas - 2009

Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled …

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Educational Reform and Labor Market Outcomes: the Case of Argentina’s Ley Federal de Educación

Alzúa, María Laura; Gasparini, Leonardo; Haimovich, … - 2010

In the nineties Argentina implemented a large education reform (Ley Federal de Educación – LFE) that mainly implied the … income-deprived youths was small for education outcomes and null for labor outcomes. En los noventa Argentina implementó una … extension of compulsory education in two additional years. The timing in the implementation substantially varied across …

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When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming

Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward Andrew; Ahuja, Amrita; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …

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Policy Challenges for the Next 50 Years

Braconier, Henrik; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Westmore, Ben - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

This paper identifies and analyses some key challenges that OECD and partner economies may face over the coming 50 years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly...

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