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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national …’ for higher education institutions, or in other words provide them with appropriate resources and regulatory environments … higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …
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education and employment outcomes, both among in-school youth who are at risk of dropping out and becoming disconnected as well …
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education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on … and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong … effects on father's education as on mother's education, we find little evidence that paternal education improves son …
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-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …
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population and whether various deciles of the education distribution have been differentially affected. We constructed a dataset …
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performance is nonlinear. The evidence supports the idea that progressive education promotes social capital. …
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education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and … with education and training more clearly targeted towards firms and sectors providing good-paying jobs. This paper proposes … employers in key industries, education providers, workforce agencies and intermediaries at the state level, plus a range of …
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We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...
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students compelled to stay on in education as a result of this compulsory school leaving rule attain higher qualification …
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