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The effect of education policy on crime : an intergenerational perspective

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 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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Is universal child care leveling the playing field? : evidence from non-linear difference-in-differences

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2010

Advocates of a universal child care system offer a two-fold argument: Child care facilitates children's long …-run development, and levels the playing field by benefiting in particular disadvantaged children. Therefore, a critical element in …-scale, publicly subsidized child care in Norway affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as adults. We find that mean …

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Subsidizing vocational training for disadvantaged youth in developing countries : evidence from a randomized trial

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Kugler, Adriana D.; Meghir, Costas - 2009

This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly offered...

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Education, health and mortality : evidence from a social experiment

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Simeonova, Emilia - 2012

We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was implemented by municipalities between 1949 and 1962 as a social experiment and implied an extension of compulsory schooling from 7 or 8 years depending on municipality to 9 years...

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Life-cycle bias and the returns to schooling in current and lifetime earnings

Bhuller, Manudeep; Mogstad, Magne; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2011

This paper uses a unique data set with nearly career-long earnings histories to provide evidence on the returns to schooling in current and lifetime earnings. We use these results to assess the importance of life-cycle bias in earnings regressions using current earnings as a proxy for lifetime...

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Life cycle earnings, education premiums and internal rates of return

Bhuller, Manudeep; Mogstad, Magne; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014

internal rate of return of around 10 percent, after taking into account income taxes and earnings-related pension entitlements …

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