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We study the impact of providing school report cards with test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A randomly selected half of our sample villages (markets) received report cards. This increased test scores by 0.11...
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differences in workers’ educational skills. We use the 2007 EU-SILC data set for Portugal, a nation which can be considered a case …
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earnings inequality in Portugal and its evolution from 1983 to 1992, with the Theil index, its decomposition, and the …
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This paper examines the changes in relative earnings of workers with different education levels during Vietnam’s transition. It is found that females enjoy a higher return to education than males do in 1998, reversing the situation observed five years ago. A large fall in the returns to...
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-employee data for the universe of workers and firms in Portugal and exploit a comprehensive episode of entry deregulation, unique in …
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entry in Portugal as a quasi-natural experiment. We use cross-municipality-year variation in the implementation of the …
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employer–employee data for the universe of workers and firms in Portugal, we show that increased product market competition …
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