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Reading to young children: a head-start in life?
Kalb, Guyonne; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083695
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The Education, Labour Market and Health Consequences of Child Labour
Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H; Gatti, Roberta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Though there is a large literature on the determinants of child labour and many initiatives aimed at combating this phenomenon, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labour for socioeconomic outcomes such as education, occupational choice, wages, and health. Using panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067577
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Sheepskin Effects in Japan
Bauer, Thomas; Dross, Patrick J; Haisken-DeNew, John P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Using data for the 1990s, this Paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimations indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that sheepskin effects are only important for workers in small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656206
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Returns to Education: Evidence from UK Twins
Bonjour, Dorothe; Cherkas, Lynn; Haskel, Jonathan; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We use a new sample of UK female identical twins to estimate private economic returns to education. We report findings in three areas. First, we use identical twins, to control for family effects and genetic ability bias, and the education reported by the other twin to control for schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662039
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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; von Wachter, Till - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
the range of 10-15%. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We investigate whether … this is due to labour market institutions or the existence of the apprenticeship training system in Germany, but find no … evidence for these explanations. We conjecture that the result might be due to the fact that the basic skills most relevant for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666619
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Heterogeneity, Stratification and Growth
Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
-wide linkages (complementary skills, knowledge spillovers). It compares growth and welfare when families are stratified into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666953
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
between vocational skills and available jobs, the record of vocational schooling has been more positive. Israel constitutes a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123991
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Risk and Returns to Education Over Time
Brown, Jeffrey; Fang, Chichun; Gomes, Francisco J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We model education as an investment in human capital that, like other investments, is appropriately evaluated in a framework that accounts for risk as well as return. In contrast to dominant wage-premia approach to calculating the returns to education, but which implicitly ignores risk, we...
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Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, is likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...
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Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...
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