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The paper examines the relation between political participation and the size of regions taking German counties as observational units. The paper makes several contributions to the literature. To begin with, we measure political participation along two dimensions namely voter turnout, which is...
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Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
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We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … teenage pregnancy of two education CCTs implemented in Bogotá (Subsidio Educativo, SE, and Familias en Acción, FA); both …
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heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants’ demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …
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work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …
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It has been argued that increased life expectancy raises the rate of return on education, causing a rise in the … investment in education followed by an increase in lifetime labor supply. Empirical evidence of these relations is rather weak … dependence of hazard rates, which determine individuals’ behavioral response w.r.t. education, work and age of retirement …
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economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …
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We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining...
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fertility. The model is a three-period CGE framework where the design of the education system and effects on factor prices are … optimal if the education system has a fixed benefit rate. This design of education and pension systems assures that …
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This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to …
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