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Female labour force participation and child education in India: The effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme

Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and temporal variation in the intensity of implementation of the...

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Human capital, economic growth, and inequality in China

Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - 2012

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...

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Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam

Emran, M. Shahe; Maret-Rakotondrazaka, Fenohasina; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use …

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The impact of education on unemployment incidence and re-employment success: Evidence from the US labour market

Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - 2011

education, we make use of data on compulsory schooling laws and child labour laws as well as conscription risk in the Vietnam …

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Education and freedom of choice: Evidence from arranged marriages in Vietnam

Emran, M. Shahe; Maret-Rakotondrazaka, Fenohasina; … - 2012

Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use …

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What Explains Vietnam's Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries? Analysis of the 2012 and 2015 Pisa Data

Dang, Hai-Anh; Glewwe, Paul; Vu, Khoa; Lee, Jongwook - 2021

Despite being the poorest or second poorest participant, Vietnam performed much better than all other developing … provide a rigorous investigation of Vietnam's strong performance. After making various parametric and non …-parametric corrections for potentially non-representative PISA samples, including bias due to Vietnam's large out-of-school population …

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The effects of maternity leave extension on training for young women

Puhani, Patrick A.; Sonderhof, Katja - 2008

Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of maternity leave from 18 to 36 months on young women's participation in job-related training. Specifically, we employ difference-indifferences identification strategies using control...

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Econometric methods for causal evaluation of education policies and practices: a non-technical guide

Schlotter, Martin; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But research that can inform evidence-based policy often requires complex methods to distinguish causation from accidental association. Avoiding econometric jargon and technical...

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Pill power: The prequel

Edlund, Lena; Machado, Cecilia - 2011

Goldin and Katz [2002], in an influential paper, argued that giving unmarried minors access to the contraceptive Pill was instrumental for women's professional advancement, because such access allowed marriage to be postponed. However, by 1960, married women could get the Pill and thence it is...

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Spillovers from conditional cash transfer programs: Bolsa Família and crime in urban Brazil

Chioda, Laura; de Mello, João M. P.; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2012

This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we estimate the contemporaneous effect of the...

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