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Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare … intergenerational effects on their children. A study of focused home-visiting programs that target parents enables us to isolate a …This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within …

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Rising returns to schooling in Argentina, 1992-2002 : productivity or credentialism?

Savanti, Maria Paula - 2005

"There has not been much change in the premium to primary education, while the returns to secondary education increased, but by less than the premium to university. The returns to incomplete university also increased significantly. There is a signal that there might be credentialism at the...

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Schooling and labor market impacts of a natural policy experiment

Sakellariou, Chris N. - 2004

"Patrinos and Sakellariou use a nationally representative household survey to estimate returns to schooling in Venezuela from instrumental variables based on a supply-side intervention in the education market. These estimates apply to a subgroup of liquidity-constrained individuals, in the...

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Economic volatility and returns to education in Venezuela : 1992-2002

Sakellariou, Chris N. - 2004

"Preliminary evidence suggests that the rates of return to education in Venezuela have been declining since the 1970s. Patrinos and Sakellariou rigorously estimate the returns to education in Venezuela for the period 1992-2002 and link them to earlier available estimates from the 1980s. They use...

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The Causal Effects of Youth Cigarette Addiction and Education

Hai, Rong; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop and estimate a life-cycle model in a rational addiction framework where youth choose to smoke, attend school, work part-time, and consume while facing borrowing constraints. The model features multiple channels for studying the reciprocal causal effects of addiction and education....

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