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This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …
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treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …
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The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … instruments in income regressions. …
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We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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We present evidence on the impact on students' math and reading scores of one of the largest deployments of an OLPC … on students' achievement over time independently of the OLPC program. Our results suggest that in the first two years of …
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