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scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We … offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India …, which suggests implementing policies that raise the economic benefits of education - such as creating more high-skilled jobs …
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The influence of peer behavior on an individual's choices has received renewed interest in recent years. However, accurate measures of this influence are difficult to obtain. Standard reduced-form methods lead to upwardly biased estimates due to simultaneity, common shocks, and nonrandom peer...
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, an unequal distribution of advantaged and disadvantaged students across schools in a community will leave many students … primary parent's education and the variance of test scores. We then implement a fixed effects estimator to control for …, but that sorting by home language and primary parent's education does. …
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It is often suggested that team spirit counteracts free-riding. Testing for team spirit with field data is difficult, however, due to an inherent identification problem. In this paper test for team spirit experimentally. In a team work task we vary subjects' information about relative team...
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A number of studies have indicated that peer smoking is a highly influential factor in a young person's decision to smoke. However, these results are suspect because the studies often fail to account for selection and simultaneity bias. This paper develops an econometric model of youth smoking...
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Local financing of public schools in the U.S. leads to a bundling of two distinct choices - residential choice and school choice - and increases the degree of socioeconomic segregation across school districts. A school finance reform can go a long way in weakening this link. In this paper I...
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This paper postulate two poverty indices based on a fuzzyfication of the poverty line approach and shows that they satisfy some of the usual axioms in the poverty line literature. It also shows that the headcount ratio is a particular case of a poverty measure based on fuzzy sets. Finally this...
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In this paper it is proposed a fuzzy multiple attribute analysis, that we have called comparative concordance, as a help instrument to the decision-making process in an environment of lack of precise information as it generally is the decision-making in regional planning. Through an application...
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This paper aims to analyse the vision of Karl Polanyi about the creation of markets. The importance of markets in societies, social relations, and capitalism.
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This paper examines the channels through which education affects household earnings in environments where wages are … unobserved. Utilizing data from rural Peru, the empirical strategy decomposes the earnings returns to education into various wage … identification of unobserved wages. Results indicate that education affects earnings disproportionately more than hours, implying …
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