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The Returns from Reducing Corruption: Evidence from Education in Uganda

Reinikka, Ritva; Svensson, Jakob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

officials' handling of a large education grant program. Combining survey and administrative data, we show that the campaign was …

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Hobbies, Skills and Incentives to Work: The Happy Gardener and the Wealthy Golfer

Sällström, Susanna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Two of the earliest inventions of a human capital-intensive technology were for the production of personal internal goods that enabled humans to derive more pleasure out of leisure, namely dance and music. I model the incentives to invent hobbies and to acquire hobby skills, and its implications...

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Alessie, Rob; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

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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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On The Optimality of Risk-Sharing in Growth Models: The Role of Education

Femminis, Gianluca - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

numerical techniques, a model based on human capital accumulation through education, and we find that the increase in … precautionary savings makes labour more productive in the goods sector and draws resources from education, which is the "growth …

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Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

insurance against unemployment caused by labour market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show … within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …

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Marrying Your Mom: Preference Transmission and Women's Labour and Education Choices

Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra; Olivetti, Claudia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

examines how it affected women’s education and labour choices. We present empirical evidence based on GSS data that favours our …

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Education, Social Cohesion and Economic Growth

Gradstein, Mark; Justman, Moshe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Analysis of the contribution of education to growth through its role in promoting a common culture indicates that when …

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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema; Ryan, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily attendance was verified through photographs with time...

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Democracy and Foreign Education

Spilimbergo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

private and public resources spent on foreign education, there is no systematic evidence that foreign educated individuals … indeed foreign-educated individuals promote democracy in their home country, but only if the foreign education is acquired in …

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