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Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence

Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020

Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...

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Microsimulation Analysis of Optimal Income Tax Reforms. An Application to New Zealand

Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman; Hérault, Nicolas; Mok, Penny - 2018

This paper examines the optimal direction of marginal income tax reform in the context of New Zealand, which recently reduced its top marginal income tax rate to one of the lowest in the OECD. A behavioural microsimulation model is used, in which social welfare functions are defined in terms of...

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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2023

total one never is, if education is available, and the disutility of child labour can be compensated by the expected utility … self-enforcing, or actually counterproductive. If the government wants to re- duce child labour and raise education to the …

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Ability composition in the class and the school performance of immigrant students

Meschi, Elena; Pavese, Caterina - 2023

Using longitudinal data from the Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System (INVALSI), this …

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Do Classical Studies Open your Mind?

Brunello, Giorgio; Esposito, Piero; Rocco, Lorenzo; … - 2023

We investigate whether classical studies in high school - that emphasize in Italy the study of ancient languages such as Latin and Greek - affect personality traits. Using Italian survey data, we compare individuals who did classical studies in high school with similar individuals who completed...

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Women's Education, Marriage, and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from Thailand's Compulsory Schooling Law

Chaijaroen, Pasita; Panda, Pallavi - 2023

Increased education affects market and non-market outcomes. This paper investigates the causal impact of the extension … of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data …

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Beyond the Average: Ethnic Capital Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Chakrabortya, Tanika; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, … - 2019

Estimating the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of immigrants’ location choice, unobserved local correlates and the reflection problem. We exploit the institutional setting of a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany, that...

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Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …

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The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

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Does Student Work Really Affect Educational Outcomes? A Review of the Literature

Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2017

We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...

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