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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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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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The changing economic advantage from private school

Green, Francis; Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard; Zhu, Yu - 2010

, nor have the characteristics of those children (and their parents) attending private school. Taken together, our findings … sending children to private school. A significant factor underpinning this has been faster rising educational attainment for … school remains a good investment for parents who want to opt out, but it also contributes more to rising economic and social …

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How much does degree choice matter?

Britton, Jack; Belfield, Chris; Vignoles, Anna; … - 2021

Using a large and novel administrative dataset, this paper investigates variation in returnsto different higher education 'degrees' (subject-institution combinations) in the United King-dom. Conditioning on a rich set background characteristics, it finds substantial variation inreturns, even...

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Returns to Education in Greece: Evidence from the 1977 Labor Market Survey using the Greek Civil War as an Instrument

Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2022

Greece experienced a devastating civil war in 1946-1949. This led to many deaths, economic losses, and severe reductions in schooling expenditures and attendance. Using an instrumental variables approach, we estimate the 1977 returns to schooling, showing that for those affected by the civil...

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