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Given recent emphasis on externality to education, macroeconomic studies have a role to play in the analysis of return … panel of Italian regions. We include measures of average, primary, secondary and tertiary education. We find that increased … education seems to contribute to growth only in the South. Decomposing total schooling into its three constituent parts, we find …
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cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market … functions and selectivity-corrected earnings fluctuations, and calculates the rates of return to education for the two sexes …, the rates of returns to education rise by education level. The analysis suggests that, as well as overall labour girls …
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significance for public policy for education, cities and social mobility. …
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Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational...
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type of involvement and the gender of the parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlier poverty …, especially at age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest in school at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education …. The frequency of outings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education than outings with father …
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Is it in politicians’ interest to focus policy on subjective well-being (SWB)? Many governments and international organisations have recently begun to measure progress at least partly in terms of the population’s SWB or “happiness”. This paper investigates the extent to which citizens...
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Becker (1974) introduced to modern economics the idea that others care about what others think about them and derived many useful insights from this assumption. But he did not provide a very complete description of the general equilibrium of an economy in which people both demand respect from...
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Subjective wellbeing data is becoming increasingly popular in economics research. The wellbeing valuation approach uses wellbeing data instead of data gleaned from preferences to attach monetary values to non-market goods. This method could be an important alternative to preference-based...
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The Greek crisis has become the most eminent example of neoliberal economic meltdown over the past five years. In towns across Greece people try to come to terms with drastic changes in their everyday lives and grapple with the the complex mixture of politics, economy, history and culture that...
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We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead...
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