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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime : An Intergenerational Perspective

Meghir, Costas - 2011

. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …

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Mental Health, Schooling Attainment and Polygenic Scores : Are There Significant Gene-Environment Associations?

Amin, Vikesh - 2019

It is well-established that (1) there is a large genetic component to mental health, and (2) higher schooling attainment is associated with better mental health. Given these two observations, we test the hypothesis that schooling may attenuate the genetic predisposition to poor mental health....

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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2022

It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria : Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2021

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...

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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2021

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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Wilhelm, Daniel; … - 2020

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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2023

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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents

Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - 2010

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our … results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate …

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Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2007

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

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Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital

Vandenbussche, Jérôme; Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas - In: Journal of economic growth 11 (2006) 2, pp. 97-127

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