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Parental Skills, Assortative Mating, and the Incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Daysal, N. Meltem; Elder, Todd E.; Hellerstein, Judith K.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use rich administrative data from Denmark to assess medical theories that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heritable condition transmitted through underlying parental skills. Positing that occupational choices reflect skills, we create two separate occupation-based skill measures and find...
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Skill-specific rather then General Education : A Reason for US-Europe Growth Differences?
Krueger, Dirk - 2003
either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to … policies favor vocational education will grow slower in equilibrium than one that favors general education. Moreover, the gap … education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …
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