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Globally, suicide has emerged as the second leading cause of death among youth aged 10-24 years old. In order to better understand the causes of this phenomenon, we investigate the relationship between suicidal ideation and cannabis use. Our empirical analysis is based on a 30 year longitudinal...
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family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to …, we can study the eect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and …
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We study a model where student eort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school … an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially compensated … through school resources. In this way we provide a rationale for the ambiguous existing empirical evidence on the effect of …
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This Paper studies the optimal education policy in the presence of different groups of households, with groups differing in the distribution of the ability to benefit from education. The main result is that the high ability individuals from groups with relatively few high ability individuals...
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the school and class of the 15 to 16 year old respondents to the survey. Based on our quantile regressions, we interpret …
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their income and in the intellectual ability of their children; income is observed by the government, but ability is private … less bright children, compared to both private provision and the first-best policy. It is also such that the education … is input regressive, in the sense of Arrow (1971): households with higher income and brighter children contribute less …
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This paper compares the organisation of the university sector under private provision with the structure which would be chosen by a welfare maximising government. It studies a general equilibrium model where universities carry out research and teach students. To attend university, and earn...
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children only enter secondary school at age 11, these effects are likely due to selection bias. Careful choice of treatment and … determined whether they would attend an academically oriented grammar school or a lower level secondary school. The reform … proceeded at an uneven pace in different areas, so that both secondary school systems coexist during the 1960s and 70s. The …
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We consider a finite number of firms, which compete imperfectly for heterogeneous workers. Firms produce a homogeneous good, sold on a competitive market, and face demand-induced price fluctuations. It is then shown that unemployment may arise in equilibrium because of both uncertainty of...
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school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the neligible children acquire more schooling when the … interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or parents learn from other parents about …
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