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More Schooling, More Children? Compulsory Schooling and Fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole E.; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2021
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological children and the incidence of childlessness. We find...
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Roles of Social Conformity in Deviance in Poverty : A Study on Working Poverty and Educational Investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075953
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Can there be a Wave-Like Association between Economic Growth and Inequality? Theory and Lessons for East Asia from the Middle East
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - CESifo - 2012
ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010580969
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Roles of Social Conformity in Deviance in Poverty: A Study on Working Poverty and Educational Investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N.; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - CESifo - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693470