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Budget Uncertainty and Faculty Contracts: A Dynamic Framework for Comparative Analysis

Khovanskaya, Irina; Sonin, Konstantin; Yudkevich, Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We study hiring decisions made by competing universities in a dynamic framework, focusing on the structure of university finance. Universities with annual state-approved financing underinvest in high-quality faculty, while universities that receive a significant part of their annual income from...

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Customary Norms, Inheritance, and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana

La Ferrara, Eliana; Milazzo, Annamaria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies the effects of descent rules on human capital accumulation. We exploit a policy experiment in Ghana …-landed households. This evidence is consistent with the fact that before the reform matrilineal groups in Ghana "over-invested" in …

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Managing and Harnessing Volatile Oil Windfalls

Van Den Bremer, Ton; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

and productivity growth is low. We apply our theory to the windfalls of Norway, Iraq and Ghana. The optimal size of Ghana …’s liquidity fund is tiny even with high prudence. Norway’s liquidity fund is bigger than Ghana’s. Iraq’s liquidity fund is … to invest. We illustrate how this can speed up the process of development in Ghana despite domestic absorption …

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When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

Fafchamps, Marcel; McKenzie, David J.; Quinn, Simon; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

randomly gave cash and in-kind grants to male- and female-owned microenterprises in urban Ghana. Our findings cast doubt on the …

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Pay Differences Between Men and Women: Longitudinal Evidence from the 1946 Birth Cohort

Joshi, Heather; Newell, Marie-Louise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

The MRC National Survey of Health and Development provides data on the hourly pay of males and females at age 26 in 1972 and in 1977. These have been subjected to regression analysis to see how far the gap between men's and women's pay is statistically explicable by (a) a "human capital" model...

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Welfare Effects of Employment Protection

Belot, Michèle; Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Employment protection is often related to costs incurred by firms when they fire a worker. The stability of the employment relationship, enhanced by employment protection, is also favourable to the productivity of the job. We analyse employment protection focusing on this trade-off between...

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Redistribution and Education Subsidies are Siamese Twins

Bovenberg, A Lans; Jacobs, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We develop a model of human capital formation with endogenous labour supply and heterogeneous agents to explore the optimal level of education subsidies along with the optimal progressive schedule of the labour income tax and optimal capital income taxes. Subsidies on education ensure efficiency...

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Occupational Choice Across Generations

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and second-generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labour market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...

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Temporary Migration, Human Capital, and Language Fluency of Migrants

Dustmann, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper investigates the human capital investments of migrants whose duration in the host country is limited, either by contract or by their own choice. The first part of the paper develops a model, distinguishing between migrants who immigrate on a fixed contract, and migrants who choose...

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Death and Development

Lorentzen, Peter L.; McMillan, John; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behaviour, higher fertility, and lower investment in physical and human...

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