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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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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 grief transfer across generations? : in-utero deaths and child outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...

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Learning to take risks? : the effect of education on risk-taking in financial markets

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …

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Rank effects in education : what do we know so far?

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022

In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...

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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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It's not just for boys! : understanding gender differences in STEM

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2019

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public …

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Gender and educational achievement: stylized facts and causal evidence

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2021

There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and …

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