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Michael Kremer
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 324
Citations - 33149
Michael Kremer is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Incentive. The author has an hindex of 78, co-authored 294 publications receiving 29375 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Kremer include National Bureau of Economic Research & Center for Global Development.
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Long-Term Educational Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia
TL;DR: The PACES program provided over 125,000 poor children with vouchers that covered the cost of private secondary school in Colombia as mentioned in this paper. The vouchers were renewable annually conditional on adequate academic progress.
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Teacher absence in india: a snapshot
TL;DR: This paper found that teacher absence is more correlated with daily incentives to attend work: teachers are less likely to be absent at schools that have been inspected recently, that have better infrastructure, and that are closer to a paved road.
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Patent Buyouts: A Mechanism for Encouraging Innovation
TL;DR: In this article, the French government purchased the Daguerreotype patent and placed it in the public domain, and the patent buyout could potentially eliminate the monopoly price distortions and incentives for rent-stealing duplicative research created by patents, while increasing incentives for original research.
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Wage inequality and segregation by skill
TL;DR: A model in which workers of different skill-levels are imperfect substitutes can simultaneously account for these increases in segregation and inequality either through technological change, or, more parsimoniously, through observed changes in the skill-distribution as discussed by the authors.
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Incentives to learn
TL;DR: A gender impact evaluation study on the impact of the merit scholarship program on adolescent girls in Kenya on the student level is presented in this article, where the effect size was about 0.2 to 0.3 standard deviations.