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What is the Domain of the Welfare State?

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...

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Interdependencies of Health, Education and Poverty: The Case of South Mediterranean Economies/Interdependencias de salud, educación y pobreza: el caso de las Economías Sur-Mediterr...

DRIOUCHI, AHMED; BOBOC, CRISTINA; ZOUAG, NADA - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 27 (2009) Agosto, pp. 523-544

This study is devoted to assessing the interdependencies between health, education and wealth at the aggregate regional … studies at micro and macroeconomic levels prove that there are causal relations between variables related to health, education … education have been revealed to have important effects in leading these economies. The results attained are likely contributions …

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Family Matters

Ermisch, John F; Francesconi, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

Household Panel Study. Mother’s education is found to be a very powerful predictor of their children’s educational attainments … men moderately, but the effects on young women’s education are small. Part, if not all, of this negative effect of living …

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HEALTH, EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: TESTING FOR LONG-RUN RELATIONSHIPS AND CAUSAL LINKS in the United States

Aka, Bédia F.; Dumont, J.C. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 8 (2008) 2, pp. 101-110

This paper examines the causal relationships between human capital (Education, and Health) and Economic growth for the …-VAR investigations show bi-directional causality between Education and Health. Causality also exists from Education to Economic growth … show that the long-run dynamics of growth are slightly explained by past health and education level, and the health level …

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Economic development and sub-regional identities

Hussein F. Zeaiter*; Khalil, Raed El; Fakih, Khodr - In: Journal of Developing Areas 49 (2015) 1, pp. 157-176

This study argues that the regions classified by the World Bank are not coherent in terms of economic structures. The special identities within each region dictate that the economic performance in different sub-regions should be determined independently. Embracing Barro’s (1991) regional...

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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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The Economics of Tracking in Education

Betts, Julian R. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

Tracking refers to the practice of dividing students by ability or achievement. Students may be tracked within schools by placing them into different classrooms based on achievement, which is the typical practice in countries such as the United States or Canada. Alternatively, students could be...

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A Simple Economic Theory of Skill Accumulation and Schooling Decisions

Blankenau, William; Camera, Gabriele - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 9 (2006) 1, pp. 93-115

We propose a model of schooling that can account for the observed heterogeneity in workers' productivity and educational attainment. Identical unskilled agents can get a degree at a cost, but becoming skilled entails an additional unobservable effort cost. Individual labor can then be used as an...

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Competition as a savings incentive: A field experiment at a homeless shelter

Linardi, Sera; Tanaka, Tomomi - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 95 (2013) C, pp. 240-251

This paper describes a randomized field experiment testing the impact of a savings competition on the behavior of homeless individuals staying at a transitional shelter. When monetary prizes were offered for achieving the highest saving rates within a particular month, average savings increased...

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The toll of fertility on mothers’ wellbeing

Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Simonsen, Marianne - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 5, pp. 752-766

of fertility on marriage stability and an increase in welfare participation measured by the likelihood of using Medicaid …

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