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We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent's schooling on child's schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining biases...
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Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market … work leaving the care of the children to the mother. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between …
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rate versus just the steady-state income level - matters less than academic discussions suggest. We close by discussing …
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individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate … education, as a supplement to the labor income tax. …
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The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess the variance in the rate of return by surveying the international empirical literature from this fresh perspective and by simulating risky earnings profiles in alternative options, choosing parameters on basis of the very...
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migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of …
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and students’ cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children’s learning time …If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper …
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We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive … rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. …
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The paper examines the relation between political participation and the size of regions taking German counties as observational units. The paper makes several contributions to the literature. To begin with, we measure political participation along two dimensions namely voter turnout, which is...
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Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
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