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groups. Additionally, our analysis allows us to provide an answer to the old question of how health protecting are education … least important for most socioeconomic characteristics. In particular, education and wealth are health protecting but have …
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initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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in education and discrimination in the labour market to hold. …
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mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …
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education. First, people- and household-based effects (internal returns to education and household wage and education … externalities) generate socioeconomic incentives for people to get an education and work, which are stronger in countries with the … regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare …
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In this paper we focus on the implications of consumer heterogeneity for whether competition will improve outcomes in health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an effective way to increase the quality signal and...
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characteristics, specifically parents' education and own height, conditional on the covariates typically controlled for in these …
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In a model where patients face budget constraints that make some treatments unaffordable, we ask which treatments should be covered by universal basic insurance and which by private voluntary insurance. We argue that both cost effectiveness and prevalence are important if the government wants to...
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We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …
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