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Human capital elements and performance of small-scale manufacturing firms in Tanzania
Mahadea, Darma; Mkocha, Aira; Ramroop, Shaun - In: International journal of education economics and development 3 (2012) 2, pp. 164-178
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Family types and the persistence of regional disparities in Europe
Duranton, Gilles; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Sandall, Richard - 2008
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Social capital and public service performance : does managerial strategy matter?
Andrews, Rhys; Brewer, Gene A. - In: Public performance & management review 38 (2014/15) 2, pp. 187-213
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Neighbourhood turnover and teenage attainment
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - 2014
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Neighbourhood turnover and teenage attainment
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - 2014
's education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … auxiliary findings based on survey data, suggest that neighbourhood turnover damages education through the disruption of local …
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Optimal policy towards families with different amounts of social capital, in the presence of asymmetric information and stochastic fertility
Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2006
We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...
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Religious practice and student performance : evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995–2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643548
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Religious practice and student performance: evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995-2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648607
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Religious practice and student performance : evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697065
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Religious practice and student performance : evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021 - This version: October 2021
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995-2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668868