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Child care markets, parental labor supply, and child development
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Ferreira, María M.; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2020
This paper develops and estimates a model of child care markets that endogenizes demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side, child care providers make entry,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390346
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The effect of education policy on crime : an intergenerational perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011
as labor earnings of the children who went through the post reform school system, in particular for individuals … the generation directly affected by the reform as well as their children. We use census data on all born in Sweden between … 1945 and 1955 and all their children merged with individual register data on all convictions between 1981 and 2008. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235170
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The effect of school quality on educational attainment and wages
Dearden, Lorraine (contributor); Ferri, Javier (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001536306
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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings
Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020
Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388740
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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents
Carneiro, Pedro (contributor); Meghir, Costas (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003546918
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Economic freedom, human rights, and the returns to human capital : an evaluation of the Schultz hypothesis
King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, Claudio; Orazem, Peter F. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663988
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Estimating the returns to education : accounting for heterogeneity in ability
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Ridao-Cano, Cristóbal; … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387970
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Education choices in Mexico : using a structural model and a randomized experiment to evaluate Progresa
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Santiago, Ana - 2010
that is better suited to evaluate the program. We find that the program has a positive effect on the enrollment of children … neutral change in the program that would increase the grant for secondary school children while eliminating for the primary … school children would have a substantially larger effect on enrollment of the latter, while having minor effects on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008653555
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Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia
Carneiro, Pedro; Lokshin, Michael; Ridao-Cano, Cristóbal; … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487500