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the household balance sheet, i.e. liabilities and assets. Additionally, we allow the influence of social interaction on … types of debt and financial assets held conditional on holding the different types of debt and assets. The analysis suggests … assets and liabilities. Our analysis also suggests that social interaction is associated with households holding larger …
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educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school …
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) productive entrepreneurship and that it will therefore compete at the individual level for resources with commercial …
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national tests at the end of primary school. This shows that school resources have an important role to play in improving …
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In this paper I survey the recent economics of education literature in order to identify which education policies can effectively improve the quality of primary schooling, as measured by pupil test-based achievements. Particular attention is devoted to the experience of England, a country which...
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resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy …. We report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics … resources can matter for children in the poorest secondary schools, particularly when building on a solid educational or ability …
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We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
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This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of variability in returns to schooling is...
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Although economic agents routinely face various types of economic uncertainty, their effects are often unclear and hard … to assess, in part due to the absence of suitable measures of uncertainty. Because of the numerous and very substantial … their periods of uncertainty, moreover, these countries have experienced sharply falling fertility rates. Some have argued …
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earnings variability are due to uncertainty and which components are due to components of human diversity that are forecastable …
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