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parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …
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This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree dropped...
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tuition fees, with contextual admission for disadvantaged students. An alternative admission channel admits lower …-ability students subject to substantial selection-fees, retained by the under-funded schools. We combine a cumulative multiple … insignificantly different from zero, for students who barely made it into the more selective school. However, the effect of attending …
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Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …
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which the central government mandated urban public schools to exempt migrant children from tuition and temporary schooling … the types of primary sampling units. Specifically, we only use non-migrant rural hukou children living in counties in the … children who are currently living in China's top 120 migrant-receiving counties or city districts, and Shanghai. We also …
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-in-Differences estimator which uses rural students to control for any common time trend. The 2SLS estimates of 17% and 12% for men and women … earnings for urban students who enrolled in HE as a result of the higher education expansion. …
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This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK by subject studied. We use data from the recent UK Labour Force Surveys which provide a sufficiently large sample to consider the effects of the subject studied, class of first...
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children in the United States by examining the effects of the 1947 Mendez v. Westminster court decision on long-run educational …
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This paper reviews and evaluates progress in recent research on the graduate premium in general as well as the differential graduate premiums by discipline, accounting for higher-education choice by individuals under substantial uncertainty. The contribution of this review, relative to previous...
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We examine the teacher labour market in China using the 2005 mini-Census, in the context of the transformation of the world's largest education system. We first document a significant increase not only in quantity, but also in quality of teachers during 1990-2005. Instrumental Variables results...
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