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This article studies the impact of education and fertility in structural transformation and growth. In the model there … dimensions, it may or may not allow child labor and it subsidizes education expenditures. The model is calibrated to South Korea … important in explaining its stagnation (growth) after 1980. We also analyze how different government policies towards education …
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We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...
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We assess the consequences of substantially increasing the marginal tax rate on U.S. top earners using a human capital model. The top of the model Laffer curve occurs at a 53 percent top tax rate. Tax revenues and the tax rate at the top of the Laffer curve are smaller compared to an otherwise...
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results suggest an alternative view of the determinants of low education in developing countries that is based on low …
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evidence that the return to a college education, relative to a high school education, does indeed vary widely across cities, e … the returns to education are relatively lower in expensive high-amenity locations, and present evidence consistent with … to education as a single parameter. …
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tax policies on an aging economy. We find that if the quality of the education system is sufficiently high then shifting … tax resources away from social security and toward education is both growth and welfare enhancing. …
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A school’s quality is often inferred from the premium a parent must pay to buy a house associated with a better school. Isolating this effect, however, is difficult because better schools also tend to be located in nicer neighborhoods and, therefore, cost more for reasons other than school...
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This paper estimates scale economies for Arkansas school districts. Large economies of scale exist in teacher salary and supply costs, as well as total costs. Our results suggest that districts, especially rural districts, would experience measurable cost-savings from consolidation. We simulate...
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children’s education. The use of out-of- school suspensions is the novelty of this paper. Out-of-school suspensions are chosen …—that is, out-of-school suspensions do not affect parental involvement in children’s education. …
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