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indirect path, parents and peers also influence educational outcomes directly. Policy measures that operate on parental …
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expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy … may exacerbate income inequality in the long run if for the less skilled dynasties, the benefits of more public spending …-induced tax base erosion is not severe, an expansive income tax policy indeed enhances future human capital for all dynasties, and …
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In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for … the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to …
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In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support these claims at the micro level. In this study,...
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Mission Sucre students in the state, returns to university level of education declined by about 5.6 percentage points between …
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We examine the links between various measures of university quality and graduate earnings in the United Kingdom. We explore the implications of using different measures of quality and combining them into an aggregate measure. Our findings suggest a positive return to university quality with an...
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induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …
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Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between several unordered alternatives. Even with a valid instrument for every type...
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students' subsequent earnings. Models that do not condition on a student's major show increased effects of changes in a …
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This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age. Each instrument estimates a 'local average treatment...
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