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This chapter examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. The contributions reviewed come from branches of economics as far apart as...
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fields of education, health, cash transfers, taxation and personal social services. In addition, the labour market and …
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parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …
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rural focus, Whites are more similar to American Indians, both experiencing very small wage returns to education. However …, females enjoy much higher returns to education than males. …
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marriage, are consistent with a model in which individuals with more schooling and more upwardly mobile occupations interact …
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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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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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. However, in the education context, many theories of peer spillovers center around unobservables, such as ability, effort, or …
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higher secondary education are found to have the greatest short to medium-term impact on the country's real GDP. Consistently … that secondary and higher secondary education should be emphasized by Bangladesh. …
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-regular workers. Education reforms are also needed to promote inclusive growth, notably by: i) improving the access of low …-income children to high-quality early childhood education and care; ii) reducing reliance on private tutoring, notably at hagwons; and … de l’éducation sont également requises pour promouvoir une croissance inclusive, notamment: i) en améliorant l’accès des …
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