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Parenting values and the intergenerational transmission of time preferences
Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Epper, Thomas - In: European economic review : EER 148 (2022), pp. 1-26
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013553327
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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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Assessing the effect of schooling on earnings using a social experiment
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 1999
The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education reform in Sweden which was implemented in the 60s. The reform was preceded by a social experiment in...
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Ability, parental background and education policy : empirical evidence from a social experiment
Meghir, Costas (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001751919
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Educational reform, ability and family background
Meghir, Costas (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002050758
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The effect of a social experiment in education
Meghir, Costas (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001580246
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Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital
Vandenbussche, Jérôme (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002472979
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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 …
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Career progression, economic downturns, and skills
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2013
This paper analyses the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...
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