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Emerson, Patrick M.; McGough, Bruce - 2010

externalities (social returns to education) there exists a range of microloan amounts that are growth depressing and welfare … divert investment away from human capital: by failing to internalize the social returns to education, households …

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Education and prosocial behavior : evidence from time use survey

Akar, Betul; Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Okten, Cagla - 2019

We use the extension of compulsory education from five to eight years in Turkey as an instrument for educational … attainment to investigate the causal effects of education on prosocial behavior by utilizing Turkish Time Use Survey data. Ours … is the first paper that investigates the causal effect of education on volunteering. We find that the education reform …

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Child labor and learning

Emerson, Patrick M.; Ponczek, Vladimir; Souza, André … - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a...

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Does education really cause domestic violence? : revisiting the Turkish data

Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …

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The short- and longer-term effects of a child labor ban

Piza, Caio; Souza, André Portela; Emerson, Patrick M.; … - 2022

Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...

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Does education really cause domestic violence? : replication and reappraisal of “For better or for worse? education and the prevalence of domestic violence in Turkey”

Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2020

), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control …

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Education and consanguineous marriage

Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Mocan, Naci - 2020

data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …

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