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end of the compulsory schooling period. We also determine whether there are differential effects for literacy and numeracy …
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How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels …
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's subjective well-being (SWB). This paper explores the direct and indirect well-being effects of extra schooling induced through … compulsory schooling laws in Australia. We find the net effect of schooling on later SWB to be positive, though this effect is … larger and statistically more robust for men than for women. We then show that the compulsory schooling effect on male's SWB …
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This paper analyses the effect of child labor on household labor supply using 1920 US Census micro data. The aim of the analysis is to understand who in the household benefits from child labor. In order to identify a source of exogenous variation in child labor I use State-specific child labor...
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Is improved school accessibility an effective policy tool for reducing child labor in developing countries? We address this question using micro data from rural Tanzania and a regression strategy that attempts to control for non-random location of households around schools as well as classical...
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