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Gender gaps in early educational achievement

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Moschion, Julie - 2015

This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies on unusually rich panel data from the Longitudinal...

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Private tutoring and academic achievement in a selective education system

Zumbuehl, Maria; Hof, Stefanie; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

Decisions about admission to selective schools usually rely on performance measures. To reach a required achievement threshold students may make use of additional resources, such as private tutoring. We investigate how the use of private tutoring relates to the transition probability to an...

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Consequences of Violence Against Social Leaders In Colombia

Orbegozo-Rodríguez, Germán D. - 2021

I study the causal effect of violence against social leaders on coca cultivation and land restitution requests in the Colombian context from 2012 to 2018. Using the timing of unexpected killings of social leaders in an event study approach, I provide evidence that the start of the violence...

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Armed Conflict and Unemployment in Colombia : The Role of US Interdiction Policy

Pulido-Velasquez, Manuel Alejandro; Alegría … - 2022

estimate the impact of high-intensity conflict on unemployment in Colombia. Using synthetic control method and difference …-in-differences models, we find that over the period 1994-2014, the high-intensity armed conflict raised unemployment rate in Colombia by … conflict through the labor market. These findings not only suggest that the high-intensity conflict had placed Colombia …

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Concealed costs : illicit economies and the erosion of the local tax base in Colombia

Justino, Patricia; Tobón, Santiago; Vanegas-Arias, Martín - 2024

lens of the recent post-conflict experience of Colombia, this paper explores the challenges of increasing tax revenues amid …

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The farmer, the blue-collar, and the monk : understanding economic development through saturations of demands and non-homothetic productivity gains

Gray, Elie; Grimaud, André; Le Bris, David - 2018 - This draft: April 9, 2018

To explain the process of development historically documented, we consider a model with three economic sectors (agriculture, manufacturing and services) characterized by different productivity gains and by saturation levels in the demands of agricultural and manufactured goods. Our parsimonious...

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Innovation, specialization and growth in a model of structural change

Andergassen, Rainer; Nardini, Franco; Ricottilli, Massimo - 2010

The aim of this paper is to investigate the nexus between demand patterns and innovation as it stems from research efforts and the extent of specialization. In the proposed model an innovation race conducted by entrants investing in research and development against established incumbents raises...

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The impact of decentralized decision making on student outcomes and teacher quality : evidence from Colombia

Elacqua, Gregory; Munevar, Isabela; Sánchez Torres, Fabio - 2019

arbitrary rule used in Colombia to define the municipalities that can autonomously manage schools, to evaluate through a …

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The power of a meal: school feeding and its educational effects : evidence from Colombia

Collante Zárate, Sofía; Rodríguez Orgales, Catherine; … - 2024

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Polarized Education Levels and Civil War

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier - 2017

This paper suggests that societies exhibiting a large degree of educational polarization among its populace are systematically more likely to slip into civil conflict and civil war. Intuitively, political preferences and beliefs of highly educated citizens are likely to differ fundamentally from...

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