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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Alejandra - CESifo - 2006
The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or parents learn from other parents about the ability of their children. Identification is based on...
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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011
individuals from acquiring human capital. Therefore, even if all individuals who acquired education remain in the home country …
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Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - CESifo - 2012
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...
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Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents
Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. - CESifo - 2011
In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for children’s cognitive skills. School performance at age...
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Global Trends in Numeracy 1820-1949 and its Implications for Long-Run Growth
Baten, Jörg; Crayen, Dorothee - CESifo - 2008
This study is the first to explore long-run trends of numeracy for the 1820-1949 period in 165 countries, and its contribution to growth. Estimates of the long-run numeracy development of most countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, America, and Europe are presented, using age-heaping...
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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries
Pritchett, Lant; Beatty, Amanda - CESifo - 2012
Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of instruction with no progress on basics. We argue shallow...
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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - CESifo - 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...
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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and non Education Outcomes: The Case of Teenage Pregnancy
Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - CESifo - 2011
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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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara; … - CESifo - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
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Fertility, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Pension System
Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Pestieau, Pierre - CESifo - 2009
part through education. In addition to the customary externality source associated with a change in average fertility rate …) Investments in education of high- and low-ability parents must be subsidized, (ii) direct child subsidies to one or both parent … types can be negative; i.e., they can be taxes, (iii) net subsidies to children (direct child subsidies plus education …
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