The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind This paper addresses the effects of migration on families left behind and offers new evidence on the impact of migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migr...

We introduce publicly funded education into R&D-based economic growth theory. Our framework allows us to i) explicitly describe a realistic process of human capital accumulation within these types of growth models, ii) reconcile semi-endogenous growth theory with the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic development and population growth, and iii) revise the policy invariance ...

mArch 2017 IZA DP No. 10674 Do Friendship Networks Improve Female Education?* We randomly assign more than 6,000 students from 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to work on math assignments in one of three settings: individually, in groups with random schoolmates, or in groups with friends. The groups consist of four people and are balanced by average cognitive ability and ability distribution. ...

The economic consequences of large-scale government investments in education depend on the general equilibrium (GE) effects in both the labor market and the education sector. I develop a general equilibrium model and derive sufficient statistics that capture the consequences of such massive countrywide schooling initiatives. I provide unbiased estimates of the sufficient statistics using a Regr...

Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso’s BRIGHT Project Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT substantiall...

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Systematic research has been conducted on the products of catalytic oxyethylenation of lanolin. The level of hydrophilic-lipophilic balance HLB and the amount of oxyethylene segments nTE in homologous series of products were determined by means of the 1HNMR method. Viscosity and spectrophotometry measurements were used to determine solubilization indices n/s/, the micellar partition coefficient...

The long-standing puzzle in the parameters of the f0(500), as well as the f0(980), is finally being settled [1] thanks to precise dispersive analyses carried out during the last years. Here we report on our very recent dispersive data analysis which allowed for a precise and model independent determination of the amplitudes for the S , P, D and F waves [2–4]. The analytic continuation of once s...

Nanointerfaces of mobile, thin spherical shells of light ions that expand on the femtosecond time scale, can be produced by Coulomb explosion of extremely ionized molecular heteroclusters consisting of light and heavy ions, e.g., (D+Iq+)n (q = 7-35), which are generated in ultraintense laser fields (intensity, I, = 10(16) to 10(20) W.cm(-2)). Modeling, together with molecular dynamics simulatio...

Incentives for Teacher Relocation: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in the policy’s implementation and the presence of common pre-treatment tr...