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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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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program

Aygün, Aysun Hızıroglu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021

This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...

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Syrian refugees and human capital accumulation of native children in Turkey

Çakır, Selcen; Erbay, Elif; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

education or training (NEET) increases among girls, particularly for those with less-educated parents, but not among boys. In …

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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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The effect of education on geographic mobility: incidence, timing, and type of migration

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G.; Torun, Huzeyfe - 2021

education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for the first time in literature, we provide … causal effects of education on migration by reason for migration. We find that while education substantially increases the … at earlier ages and their migration reasons change. Revealing the empowering role of education, women become more likely …

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School integration of refugee children: evidence from the largest refugee group in any country

Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2021

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...

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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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