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increase schooling and reduce child labour. Although international remittances are found to have a stronger beneficial impact …
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Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are … have twelve years of schooling, on average. Particularly noteworthy is that as many as 45 percent of adult rural Hui …. We show that the incentive to invest in length of schooling is smaller among Hui than Han as the association between …
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During the last decade knowledge about human behavior from psychology and sociology has enhanced the field of economics of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by achievement tests) and soft skills (personality traits not adequately measured by achievement tests)...
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educational attainment compared to a large-scale government conditional cash transfer program to encourage female schooling. …
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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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, we estimate conditional fixed effects logit models of school attendance and primary school completion. We find that … beneficial, since it may contribute to matching the demand and supply of schooling. The absence of adults, instead, has …
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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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The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the ineligible children acquire more schooling when the …
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highest schooling and the highest professional degree obtained by younger cohorts. …
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This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we estimate the contemporaneous effect of the...
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