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Collateral Damage: The Impact of Work Stoppages on Student Performance in Ontario

Johnson, David - C. D. Howe Institute - 2009

This study concludes that (i) stoppages can be shown to have a strong negative impact on student learning outcomes in Grade 6; the overall impact of stoppages on Grade 3 pupils appears to be much smaller, perhaps zero, although there is a noticeable, negative effect on achievement in mathematics;...

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Selfish and Indoctrinated Economists?

Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

due to economics education. This paper offers empirical evidence against this widely held belief. Using a unique data set … on giving behaviour in connection with two social funds at the University of Zurich, it is shown that economics education …

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Two Concerns about Rational Choice: Indoctrination and Imperialism

Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

Rational Choice Theory is often criticized to indoctrinate students in a negative, which is supported by some laboratory experiments. But do students of Rational Choice Theory really behave more selfishly? This paper presents evidence from a natural decision on voluntary donation at the...

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TLA – A Innovative Problemsolving Approach to Regional Development

Ionică, Andreea; Băleanu, Virginia; Irimie, Sabina - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 7 (2007), pp. 201-206

The Tourism Learning Areas approach (TLA) develops an innovative approach, that of learning areas, to upgrade skills in the tourism industry, thus enhancing the economic and social dimension in the tourist areas and improving competitiveness. The tourism sector is at the heart of the...

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The Causal Effect of Parent’s Schooling on Children’s Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide … quality of each identification procedure; and (iii) get at better perspective about intergenerational effects of education. We …. Our findings therefore indicate that the estimated impact of parental education on that of their child in Sweden does …

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The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China’s Great Famine

Meng, Xin; Qian, Nancy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In the past century, more people have perished from famine than from the two World Wars combined. Many more were exposed to famine and survived. Yet we know almost nothing about the long run impact of famine on these survivors. This paper addresses this question by estimating the effect of...

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A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy

Vodopivec, Milan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The paper takes advantage of exceptionally rich longitudinal data on the universe of labor force participants in Slovenia and simulates the working of an income contingent loan scheme to partly recover tuition costs. The simulations show that under the base variant (where the target cost...

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Earnings Mobility Among Italian Low Paid Workers

Cappellari, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper uses Italian panel data to analyse transition probabilities at the bottom of the earnings distribution during the 1990s. The analytical framework is characterised by the ability to account for the endogeneity of initial conditions, educational attainment and earnings attrition,...

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The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data

Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to … intergenerational transmissions, and that pre-birth factors are more important for mother’s education and less important for father …

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Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation

Grossmann, Volker; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show … with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of parents to invest in their children’s education. This result holds …

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