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Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

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Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...

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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society? : education benefits individuals, but the societal benefits are likely even greater

Winters, John V. - 2015

Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …

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What determines adult cognitive skills? : influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala

Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-32

Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, we find that: (1) School attainment has a significant and substantial effect...

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Public spending in education and student's performance in Colombia

Heras Recuero, Laura; Olaberría, Eduardo - 2018

This paper investigates if higher public spending in education and better teacher qualifications are related to student … investment in public education and higher teacher qualifications can help increase average performance and reduce the impact that … variation in education performance in Colombia, a relatively high percentage when compared to those found by other studies …

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