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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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Immigration and school choices in the midst of the Great Recession

Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2015

This paper empirically analyzes the effects of immigration on the schooling decisions of natives. We employ household-level data for Spain for years 2000-2012, a period characterized by a large immigration wave and a severe recession. Our estimates reveal that Spanish households responded to...

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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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Immigration and the political economy of public education : recent perspectives

Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2015

This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country … and the quality of education in these schools. Our review of the literature, which includes both quantitative and …-scale immigration is that it appears to undermine the political support for public education, resulting in a deterioration in the …

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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects

Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2022

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics...

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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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Determinants of teacher value-added in public primary schools : evidence from administrative panel data

Tanaka, Ryūichi; Bessho, Shun-ichiro; Kawamura, Akira; … - 2020

This study estimates teacher value-added (TVA) for language arts and mathematics test scores of students in public primary schools to investigate the empirical relationship between testscore TVA and observable traits and promotions of teachers. Our empirical strategy employs Chetty, Friedman,...

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