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Uncovering Gender Differences in the Effects of Early Intervention: A Reevaluation of the Abecedarian, Perry Preschool, and Early Training Projects
Anderson, Michael - EconWPA - 2005
, particularly in the domain of total years of education. However, there were no significant long-term benefits for boys. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134611
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Child Schooling in Peru: Evidence From A Sequential Analysis of School Progression
Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2003
. This entails richer results, argued to be better than the standard static estimates. In particular, parental education … schooling differently. While parental education is crucial for child school enrolment at the primary level, sibling composition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408323
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Does the Mortality Decline Promote Economic Growth?
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - EconWPA - 2002
This paper analyzes qualitatively and quantitatively the e ects of declining mortality rates on fertility, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412569
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School Characteristics and the Demand for College
Bezmen, Trisha; II, Craig A. Depken - EconWPA - 1996
We estimate the demand for colleges in the United States by relating new applications to easily comparable characteristics of the schools in the sample. We find that the demand for 1134 U.S. colleges in 1994 is positively related to out-of-state tuition but inversely related to in- state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125047
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Education, Inequality and Violent Crime in Minas Gerais
Puech, Frédéric - EconWPA - 2005
role of education. It distinguishes between property and interpersonal crime and proposes an econometric estimation of the … model for 723 municipalities of Minas Gerais, one of the 26 Brazilian states. Education has a significant reducing effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134619
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The Long Walk to School: International education goals in historical perspective
Clemens, Michael A. - EconWPA - 2004
mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children …'s school enrollment to a greater degree than education policy interventions. A succession of international meetings has … nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407681
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Hidden Teacher Effort in Educational Production: Monitoring vs. Merit Pay
Jaag, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
This paper deals with the optimality of teacher incentive contracts in the presence of costly or limited government resources. It considers educational production under asymmetric information as a function of teacher effort and class size. In the presence of costly government resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076924
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Explaining Non-Negative Duration Dependence Among the Unemployed
Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004
We investigate why we observe non-negative duration dependence among young unemployed men in urban Ethiopia. Assuming that genuine duration dependence is negative, there are five explanations for a non-decreasing hazard: the presence of unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556022
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The Nature of Unemployment in Urban Ethiopia
Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004
With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of incidence and duration and find that most variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556068
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Migration and Regional Disparities: the Role of Skill Biased Flows
Fratesi, Ugo; Riggi, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2004
The persistence of disparities is one of the most striking features of regional development. We argue that movements of labour force, instead of being an always equilibrating mechanism, can also make persistent or even reinforce such inequalities. The most advanced regions are in fact generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556209