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The impact evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) program on students' cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Glewwe, Paul; Lee, Jongwook; Khoa Vu - 2022
This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by the World Bank, affected the cognitive (mathematics and Vietnamese) and non-cognitive (socioemotional) skills of students in that country. We use propensity score matching to...
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The impact of COVID-19 on education in Latin America : long-run implications for poverty and inequality
Bracco, Jessica; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2024
on the impact of COVID-19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a …
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How did Swiss small and medium enterprises weather the COVID-19 pandemic? : evidence from survey data
Nicolas, Christina; Brender, Nathalie; Maradan, David - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 16 (2023) 2, pp. 1-16
(SMEs). The aim of this paper is to empirically study the impact of the COVID-19 sanitary crisis on Swiss SMEs two years … after the onset of the pandemic. Using a sample of 149 SMEs operating in the French-speaking region of Switzerland, we find … future pandemic on SMEs. Additionally, we quantify the impact of closure on SMEs and find that firms having reported to have …
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Policy Evaluations of Microenterprise Business Support Services in Latin America : a Systematic Review
Padilla Angulo, Laura; Lasarte López, Jesús Miguel; … - 2022
Microenterprises represent 88.4% of Latin American enterprises, and many countries in the region have developed microenterprise promotion policies in recent years; however, rigorous evaluation remains a pending issue. To shed light on the research done on this topic over 20 years and propose a...
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Do direct R&D subsidies lead to the monopolization of R&D in the economy?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in an economy. First, governments are often criticized of subsidizing predominantly larger firms and thus contribute to persistence of leadership in markets and higher barriers to entry, and, hence, reduced competition...
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Government R&D Support for SMEs : Policy Effects and Improvement Measures
Lee, Sungho - 2019
Government R&D grants for SMEs have risen to three trillion Korean won a year, placing Korea second among OECD nations …
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Financing Innovation : Evidence from R&D Grants
Howell, Sabrina T - 2016
Governments regularly subsidize new ventures to spur innovation. This paper conducts the first large-sample, quasi-experimental evaluation of R&D subsidies. I use data on ranked applicants to the U.S. Department of Energy's SBIR grant program. An award approximately doubles the probability that...
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Impacts of Match 2011 Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Accident in Japan
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2014
On March 11, 2011 the strongest recorded in Japan earthquake occurred which triggered a powerful tsunami and caused a nuclear accident in the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant Station. The triple 2011 disaster has had immense impacts on people life, health and property, social infrastructure and...
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Agri-food Impacts of Fukushima Nuclear Accident - Lessons Learned 10 Years after Disaster
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2021
On March 11, 2011, the strongest ever recorded in Japan earthquake occurred which triggered a powerful tsunami and caused a nuclear accident in Fukushima nuclear plant. The latter was a “manmade” disaster having immense impacts on people’s life, health, and property, infrastructure, supply...
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Managerial practices and students' performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014
We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...
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