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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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Economic returns to schooling for China's Korean minority
Mishra, Vinod; Smyth, Russell - In: Journal of Asian Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 89-102
recent studies for the Chinese urban labour market. We use parents’ education and spouse's education to instrument for … education as well as exploit heteroskedasticity to aid in identification. The two-stage least squares estimates using parents …’ and spouse's education are considerably higher than the OLS estimates for returns to schooling, while the estimates which …
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Charitable giving in married couples : untangling the effects of education and income on spouses' giving
Mesch, Debra J.; Osili, Una Okonkwo; Dale, Elizabeth J.; … - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly : journal of … 51 (2022) 2, pp. 444-458
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Female education, marital assortative mating, and dowry : theory and evidence from districts of India
Goel, Prarthna Agarwal; Barua, Rashmi - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 89 (2023) 2, pp. 183-209
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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023
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Child marriage, education, and agency in Uganda
Wodon, Quentin; Nguyen, Minh Cong; Tsimpo, Clarence - In: Feminist economics 22 (2016) 1, pp. 54-79
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How the other half lived : marriage and emancipation in the age of the Pill
Edlund, Lena; Machado, Cecilia - In: European economic review : EER 80 (2015), pp. 295-309
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On the measurement of non-random mating and of its change over time
Silber, Jacques; Sasiwimon Warunsiri Paweenawat; Lusi Liao - In: Review of Economics of the Household 20 (2022) 1, pp. 161-198
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Educational homogamy and assortative mating have not increased
Gihleb, Rania; Lang, Kevin - In: Change at home, in the labor market, and on the job, (pp. 1-26). 2021
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Age at parents' separation and achievement : evidence from France using a sibling approach
Le Forner, Helène - In: Annals of economics and statistics 138 (2020), pp. 107-163
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