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. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil …
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its aggregate implications. Before 1960, children from larger families had richer parents and obtained more education. By … skill returns lowered the minimum income at which parents invest in education …Using micro-data from 48 developing countries, I document a recent reversal in the income-fertility relationship and …
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Fertility change is distinct from other forms of social and economic change because it directly alters the size and composition of the next generation. This paper studies how changes in population composition over the fertility transition feed back into the evolution of average fertility across...
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- and middle-income countries worldwide, focusing on educational outcomes that include enrollment, attendance, dropout and …
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, but relatively little is known about how effective these expenditures are at increasing students' years of completed …
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The time that children spend in school varies across countries. Do these differences explain international gaps in … pupils' academic achievements? In this paper, I estimate the effects of instructional time on students' achievement using …
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In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...
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used to improve the study and function of cities. We first show how Google Street View images can be used to predict income …
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1970 -- the income gap between the US and the sending country, the education gap between the US and the sending country …
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more. This study examines the distribution of such spending by income and care type, and the variation in spending about … spending varies by income but that most spending usually occurs in income quintiles below the topmost quintile. We use … relationship between spending and income suggests that insurance markets may need to be segmented by income …
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