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wives of men in these groups in the period from 1978 through 1999. Parents' schooling, especially mother's schooling, does …
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In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and children's educational achievement, as measured by … 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which contains a large, national sample of children …-invariant characteristics of the child. Our results suggest that, in general, children who are overweight or obese have achievement test scores …
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children when they are high school seniors. In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years …
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This paper is an empirical investigation of the effect of poor early life-cycle health on post-secondary educational choices and outcomes. We use panel data for a sample of 10,430 individuals who were high school seniors in the spring of 1972, and who were re-surveyed in October of each year...
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The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate the propensity for alcohol-related policies to influence rates of entry into foster care and the length of time spent in foster care. Alcohol consumption is believed to be major contributing factor to child maltreatment, associated with an...
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widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little …
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-experimental variation in state spending. Unlike previous measures, we find that high-income-modest-ability students especially benefit since … students. This implies that the net benefits to students who do not attend public colleges is negative. However, they miss … private colleges admit, what prices they charge, and the number of students who enroll in any college. We show that capturing …
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The effects of the G.I. Bill on collegiate attainment may have differed for black and white Americans owing to differential returns to education and differences in opportunities at colleges and universities, with men in the South facing explicitly segregated colleges. The empirical evidence...
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Several recent studies use the schooling and wage variation between monozygotic twins to estimate the return to schooling. In this paper, we summarize the results from this literature, and we examine the implications of endogenous determination of which twin goes to school longer and of...
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In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and Krueger use quarter of birth as an instrument for educational attainment in wage equations. To support a causal interpretation of their estimates, they argue that compulsory...
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