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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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Educational inequality and the returns to skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...

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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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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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Educational gender gaps

Lundberg, Shelly - 2020

Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates …

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Gender gaps in the effects of childhood family environment : do they persist into adulthood?

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Lundberg, Shelly - 2016

We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and … parental education and family structure during childhood to male-female and brother-sister differences in teenage outcomes … from an advantageous family environment than do girls in terms of the behavior and grade-school outcomes. Father …

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Father absence and the educational gender gap

Lundberg, Shelly - 2017

increase in single-parent households may be contributing to the growing gender gap in education, as boys are more vulnerable to …

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Vulnerable boys : short-term and long-term gender differences in the impacts of adolescent disadvantage

Lei, Ziteng; Lundberg, Shelly - 2020

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data we find, as do...

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