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marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men …
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. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment …
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I investigate whether primary school completion has played any role on total fertility rates in all fifteen countries … heterogeneity and endogeneity in thin panels), suggests that primary education has indeed reduced fertility rates in the SADC, or … that the community is already trading-off quantity for quality of children. The results are important because lower …
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trading-o¤ quantity for quality of children. The results are important because lower fertility, caused by education, implies …In this paper I investigate whether secondary school enrollment has played any role on total fertility rates in all  … estimators), robustly suggest that education has reduced fertility rates in the community, or that the community is already …
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This paper presents an analysis of the determinant of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics. School participation especially among girls, responds to a wide range of variables, including...
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This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales. We find that educational composition of the larger neighbourhood can influence the dropout...
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Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal …
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The lack of accurate measures of human capital formation often constrain investigations into the long-run determinants of growth and comparative economic development, especially in regions such as Africa. Using the reported age of criminals in the Courts of Justice records in the Cape Archive,...
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