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also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the …’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …. This result is consistent with historical evidence that longevity began to increase long before education did. Our theory …
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, education and labor market success. We conclude that there do not appear to be serious harmful health effects of moderate … an overview of this literature, focusing on studies which seek to establish the causal effect of cannabis use on health … cannabis use. Nevertheless, there is evidence of reduced mental well-being for heavy users who are susceptible to mental health …
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education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …
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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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We study a model where student eort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. We can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside options will...
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This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily attendance was verified through photographs with time...
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In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...
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We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several …
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We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … long run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. …
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supported families enjoy the benefits of spending on health and education simultaneously (DT), and those under which the … education must be concentrated, in certain ways, on some subgroups of society, at first to the partial exclusion of others. This …
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