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women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation … exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …
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selection issues present in studies on single-sex education done on students in primary and secondary school. We find that one … hour a week of single-sex education benefits females: females are 7.5% more likely to pass their first year courses and … economics and business at university than females who studied in coed classes. There is evidence that single-sex education …
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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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We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that 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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: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on …. We find a positive effect of engineering education on the propensity to patent, and a negative OLS bias. Our …
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This Paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyses the efficiency and welfare …
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in which agents decide whether to become skilled or unskilled, form households, consume and have children. We show that … the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in education) is increasing as a function of the skill … premium and of the degree of correlation of spouses’ education (marital sorting). For all our measures, we find a positive and …
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tamper-proof date and time function, along with instructions to have one of the children photograph the teacher and other … schools and children were 40% more likely to be admitted into regular schools. …
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the quality of the neighborhood in terms of human capital, the higher the parent’s involvement in children’s education …We develop a model that gives some microfoundation to the impact of residential neighborhood on children’s educational …, indicating cultural complementarity. For highly educated parents, we also find that both parents’ involvement in education and …
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