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作者：Sylvia, Sean; Warrinnier, Nele; Luo, Renfu; Yue, Ai; Attanasio, Orazio; Medina, Alexis; Rozelle, Scott
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of London; Queen Mary University London; KU Leuven; Peking University; Shaanxi Normal University; Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Stanford University
摘要：A key challenge in developing countries interested in providing early childhood development (ECD) programmes at scale is whether these programmes can be effectively delivered through existing public service infrastructures. We present the results of a randomised experiment evaluating the effects of a home-based parenting programme delivered by cadres in China's Family Planning Commission (FPC)-the former enforcers of the one-child policy. We find that the programme significantly increased infa...
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作者：Li, Wenchao; Yi, Junjian
作者单位：Tongji University; Peking University
摘要：We study the consequences of alphabetical author order in economics for job placements of economists, based on a context that enables a clean identification. Results using two different data sets both show that, relative to Chinese physicists and statisticians, Chinese economists with surname initials located later in the alphabet tend not to stay in the US and are more likely to work in China. Such effects of surname initials on job placements are clearly identified and represent a result of ...
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作者：John, Andrew; Ozgur, Onur
摘要：The emergence of language is one of the defining events of the human race. The subsequent development and evolution of languages, over the long sweep of history, reflect political, military, cultural, social and economic forces. The current article offers a highly parsimonious theoretical explanation of the endogenous creation and destruction of distinct languages, focusing purely on the interaction of economic and linguistic forces. Specifically, the article presents an endogenous growth mode...
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作者：Matthewes, Soenke Hendrik
作者单位：Free University of Berlin; Leibniz Association; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung
摘要：I study the effects of early between-school ability tracking on student achievement. My research design exploits institutional differences between German federal states: in all states about 40% of students transition to separate academic-track schools after comprehensive primary school. Depending on the state, the remaining student body is either directly tracked between two additional school types or taught comprehensively for another two years. Comparing these students before and after track...
