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Within-the-family education and its impact on equality

Nordblom, Katarina - EconWPA - 2001

This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...

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Uncovering Gender Differences in the Effects of Early Intervention: A Reevaluation of the Abecedarian, Perry Preschool, and Early Training Projects

Anderson, Michael - EconWPA - 2005

The view that the returns to public educational investments are highest for early childhood interventions stems primarily from several influential randomized trials - Abecedarian, Perry, and the Early Training Project - that point to super-normal returns to preschool interventions. This paper...

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Child Schooling in Peru: Evidence From A Sequential Analysis of School Progression

Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2003

Primary enrolment rates are very high in Peru, but so are the failure and drop-out rates, especially beyond the primary level. Thus an analysis of child schooling should take account of the conditional sequence with the previous level and self-selection into the next higher level of schooling....

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Trends in the Youth Labour Market in Developing and Transition Countries

O'Higgins, Niall - EconWPA - 2005

This paper looks at youth labour market trends concentrating on developing and transition countries. Questions relating to the integration of young people into decent work have in recent times once again begun to occupy a central position in Government Policy issues. Recently co-ordinated...

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Long Term Effects of Preschool Investment on school Performance and Labor Market Outcome

Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 2003

Using the NLSY data set, this paper formulates and then empirically estimates the production processes for social, motivational and cognitive skills during early childhood development and the long-term effects of these skills on learning and life-time earnings of an individual. Using these...

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Does the Choice of University Matter? A Study of the Differences across UK Universites in Life Sciences Students' Degree Performance

Bratti, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2001

This paper investigates differences across UK universities in 1993 life sciences students' degree performance using individual-level data from the Universities' Statistical Record (USR). Differences across universities are analysed by specifying and estimating a subject- specific educational...

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The e ect of financial rewards on students achievement: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Klaauw, Bas van der - EconWPA - 2004

This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing the first year requirements within one year. Participants were assigned to a high, low and zero (control) reward...

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New evidence on the effect of time in school on early achievement

Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - EconWPA - 2004

This study estimates the effect of expanding enrollment possibilities in early eduction on the achievement of young children. To do so it exploits two features of the Dutch schooling system. First, children are allowed to enroll in school on their fourth birthday. Second, children having their...

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The Impact of Female Employment on the Likelihood and Timing of Second and Higher Order Pregnancies

Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1996

This paper examines the effects of married women's employment on their fertility behavior in the United States. Data … from the National Survey of Family and Households are used in a hazard model to determine whether a woman's employment … transition to third pregnancy. In addition, this paper demonstrates that an appropriate method of modeling the fertility and …

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A Dynamic Decision Model of Marriage, Childbearing, and Labor Force Participation of Women in Japan

Ueda, Atsuko - EconWPA - 2000

participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using … lower for less-educated women. As regards family formation, utility gains and losses from the first child are insignificant … of marriage and two children as a typical family unit is negative for women in the labor force. …

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