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Many countries have phased out nuclear electricity production in response to concerns about nuclear waste and the risk of nuclear accidents. This paper examines the impact of the shutdown of roughly half of the nuclear production capacity in Germany after the Fukushima accident in 2011. We use...
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China. After instrumenting city-level education using the number of relocated university departments across cities in the … 1950s, one year more city-level education increases individual hourly wage by 22.0 percent, more than twice the OLS …
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education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …
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A structural model of the demand for college attendance is derived from the theory of comparative advantage and recent statistical models of self-selection and unobserved components. Estimates from NBER-Thorndike data strongly support the theory. First, expected lifetime earnings gains influence...
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It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase …
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institutional structure to attitudes such as trust, individualism, and nepotism. Using data from Turkey and leveraging an education …
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Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …
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We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …
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In the United States, religious attendance rises sharply with education across individuals, but religious attendance … declines sharply with education across denominations. This puzzle is explained if education both increases the returns to … social connection and reduces the extent of religious belief. The positive effect of education on sociability explains the …
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