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| Wang, Sen; DesRoches, C. Tyler; Sun, Lili; Stennes, Brad; Wilson, Bill; van Kooten, G. Cornelis. |
| This paper has three main objectives: (1) to investigate whether the four-quadrant approach introduced by Maini (2003) reveals a useful typology for grouping countries by GDP and forest cover per capita, (2) to determine if the framework can enhance our understanding of the relationship between forest cover and GDP per capita, and (3) to investigate why countries in the four-quadrant world occupy different quadrants, and to determine the principal factors affecting country-movement across and within the individual quadrants. The examination reveals that countries can be classified into four broad categories, and that GDP and forest cover per capita have a low but consistent level of negative association. After regressing economic, institutional, social... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Economic well-being; Forest cover; Institutions; Corruption; Education; Environmental Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; G00; I20; Q23. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37036 |
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| Akresh, Richard. |
| Researchers claim that children growing up away from their biological parents may be at a disadvantage and have lower human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and child fixed effects regressions to address the endogeneity of fostering. Data collection by the author involved tracking and interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in of foster children with their non-fostered biological siblings. Foster children are equally likely as their host siblings to be enrolled after fostering and are 3.6 percent more likely to be enrolled than their biological siblings. Relative to children from non-fostering households, host siblings, biological siblings, and foster... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Human capital investment; Child fostering; Household structure; Labor and Human Capital; J12; I20; O15; D10. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28521 |
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| Trostel, Philip A.. |
| This study estimates marginal rates of return to investment in schooling in 12 countries. Significant systematic nonlinearity in the marginal rate of return is found. In particular, the marginal rate of return is increasing significantly at low levels of education, and decreasing significantly at high levels of education. This may help explain why estimates of the return to schooling are often considerably higher when instrumenting for education. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Return to education; Nonlinearity; Instrumental variables; I20; J24. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37550 |
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| Tisdell, Clement A.. |
| Relationships between bounded rationality and transaction cost theories are discussed and their connections with stochastic theories of industrial evolution are considered. While these theories have their limitations, they are useful but have been ignored in many public policy prescriptions, especially those involving markets. For example, as discussed, these theories have failed, on the whole, to influence competition policy and the design of more efficient systems for public administration (contracting out, labour contracts for public employment, adoption of the user-pays principle and use of performance budgeting and accounting), as well as in policies to remove market frictions. The result may be less efficient systems than otherwise achievable and... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Bounded rationality; Competition policy; Evolutionary theory; Market dynamics; Public administration; Transaction costs; Public Economics; D23; H11; I20. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90531 |
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| Jordan, Jeffrey L.; Anil, Bulent. |
| Noncognitive factors such as discipline (and its mirror, punishment in the form of discipline referrals) can affect school and labor market outcomes, human capital development, and thus the economic well–being of communities. It is well–known throughout the United States, but particularly in rural areas of the south that black males drop out of school more frequently than white males, face higher levels of unemployment, and are incarcerated at a disproportionate rate compared with their white cohorts. Also students in low–income homes were three times more likely to drop out than those from average–income homes and nine times more likely than students from high–income homes. This paper tests the hypothesis that the odds of a student being referred for... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Discipline; School drop outs; Student/teacher race and gender; Labor and Human Capital; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession; I20; J24. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53089 |
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| Huang, Fung-Mey. |
| In this study, we examine the association of urban-to-rural migration with the deterioration of labor market in urban sector due to the globalization of markets and production. Two measures of the relative impacts of globalization on urban and rural labor markets: changes in rural-urban real earning differential and changes in the rural-urban probabilities of being employed. We, thus, address the following questions. What would be the changes in both rural-urban real earning differential and the rural-urban differential in the probabilities of being employed over the last decade? Can real earning differentials or employment differentials, or both significantly influence the urban-to-rural migration decisions? Which one plays a pivotal role in the analysis?... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Globalization; Labor migration; Agricultural sector; Community/Rural/Urban Development; J31; I20. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9953 |
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