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The long-run impact of childhood poverty and the mediating role of education

Bellani, Luna; Bia, Michela - 2017

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …

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Technology and education : computers, software, and the internet

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...

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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...

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Education and health : the role of cognitive ability

Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - 2013

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … education are still substantial, and amount to a 4 years gain in life expectancy, on average. …

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Long-term orientation and educational performance

Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Özek, Umut; … - 2016

We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long …

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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …

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Does globalisation increase child labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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International education and economic growth

Bergerhoff, Jan; Borghans, Lex; Seegers, Philipp K.; … - 2013

highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of … countries benefit from educating international students. We derive conditions under which international education has a positive … extra growth of 0.049 percentage points. The benefits from international education increase when a country tunes its …

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Religion in economic history: a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...

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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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