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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric A.; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - CESifo - 2014
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
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The Effect of Investment in Children's Education on Fertility in 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010
The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …
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