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This paper assesses educational attainment of immigrant children, in particular evaluating whether naturalised parents … invest more in their children's human capital than non-naturalised parents. Findings of the literature indicate that … capital increase with the duration of residence, naturalised parents may have more incentives to invest in the educational …
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This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.
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This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapproval affects school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take...
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Annual, before-tax income is the most common official statistic used to measure economic well-being and therefore … underlies the design of most anti-poverty programs or other redistributive economic policies. Notwithstanding, extended income … income and age groups, and somewhat different answers about trends in resources over time. More importantly, by explicitly …
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