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Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013

China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...

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The right amount of trust

Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2010

We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Heterogeneity of trust beliefs in the population, coupled with the tendency of individuals to extrapolate...

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Integrated assessment modeling : modules for cooperation

Jaeger, Carlo; Leimbach, Marian; Carraro, Carlo; … - 2002

An integrated assessment (IA) model combines knowledge from very different disciplines in view of a practical problem. Most models developed so far are rather monolithic in the sense that it is difficult to combine components from different models for purposes of new assessments. We propose to...

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Sex-differences in language and socio-emotional skills in early childhood

Bando Grana, Rosangela; López Bóo, Florencia; Li, Xia - 2016

This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 … scored at -0.13 standard deviations (SD) in language in the distribution of females. In addition, males scored at -0.20 SD in …

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Partial Language Competence

Hagenbach, Jeanne; Koessler, Frédéric - 2019

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Lost in translation : reading performance and math performance of second-generation children in Italy

Cavallo, Mariagrazia; Russo, Giuseppe - 2020

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Earning differentials between German and French speakers in Switzerland

Cattaneo, Alejandra (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

along language borders? Improving on previous research in this area, we use a nationally representative household survey …, the Swiss Household Panel 1999 and 2000, and we explicitly account for self-selection of workers into language areas … positively selected. -- language ; labor market segmentation ; Swiss household panel …

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Native language, spoken language, translation and trade

Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - 2012

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On sharing the benefits of communication

Athanasiou, Efthymios; Dey, Santanu; Valletta, Giacomo - 2012

. In order to communicate they need to have a language in common. Learning languages is costly. In this setting no …

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Wealth gradients in early childhood cognitive development in five Latin American countries

Schady, Norbert Rüdiger; Behrman, Jere R.; Araujo, … - 2014

comparability, we use the same measure of receptive language ability for all five countries. We find important differences in …

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