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One Step at a Time : The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers

York, Benjamin N. - 2014

Large systematic differences in young children's home learning experiences have long-term economic consequences. Many … parenting programs place significant demands on parents' time and inundate parents with information. This study evaluates the … effects of READY4K!, an eight-month-long text-messaging intervention for parents of preschoolers that targets the behavioral …

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Smoking, discount rates, and returns to education

Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000

Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 as an instrument for schooling in order to cope with ability bias in a returns to education...

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Economic returns to education : what we know, what we don't know, and where we are going ; some brief pointers

Harmon, Colm - 2011

The estimation of the economic return to education has perhaps been one of the predominant areas of analysis in applied economics for over 50 years. In this short note we consider some of the recent directions taken by the literature, and also some of the blockages faced by both science and...

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Human capital development and parental investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015

-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production … endogenous and they depend on local prices and household income, as well as on the exogenous determinants of cognition and health …

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Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time?

Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 1999

In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...

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Smoking, Discount Rates, and Returns to Education

Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000

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The effect of a social experiment in education

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Marten - 2001

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''...

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Labor market returns to two- and four-year colleges : is a credit a credit and do degrees matter?

Kane, Thomas J.; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - 1993

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Estimates of the returns to schooling from sibling data : fathers, sons, and brothers

Ashenfelter, Orley - 1993

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Lower and upper bounds of returns to schooling : an exercise in IV estimation with different instruments

Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 1998

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