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Knowledge is power: A theory of information, income, and welfare spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rhoner, Dominic - 2011

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

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Pennies from heaven: Using exogenous tax variation to identify effects of school resources on pupil achievement

Hægeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell … - 2007

Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous allocation; families sort themselves non-randomly into school districts and school districts...

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The neighbourhood is not what it used to be: Has there been equalisation of opportunity across families and communities in Norway?

Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2001

Parents influence their children's adult outcomes through economic and genetic endowments, transmission of cultural … the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children growing up in the same local community …. Sibling correlations are estimated to be a little lower than for the US, while correlations between neighbourhood children in …

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The high fertility of college educated women in Norway: An artefact of the piecemeal approach

Kravdal, Øystein - 2001

College education has a positive impact on birth rates, net of age and duration since previous birth, according to models estimated separately for second and third births. There are also indications of such effects on first-birth rates, in the upper 20s and 30s. Whereas a high fertility among...

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Changing relationships between education and fertility: A study of women and men born 1940-64

Kravdal, Øystein; Rindfuss, Ronald R. - 2007

Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the relationship between education and completed fertility in low fertility countries and especially the trend in this relationship over time. An inverse relationship is expected, but the topic has been left largely unexplored for at least a...

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Educational homogamy in Norway: Trends and patterns

Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth; Heldal, Johan - 2000

This paper focuses on trends and patterns in educational homogamy over time. A number of previous studies have documented a fairly high level of homogamy in Norway. Most of these studies, however, have been local and ethnographic, or based on national data measuring homogamy within a limited...

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