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high-frequency data to estimate the dynamic migration response to conflict for the case of the Mexican Revolution (1910 …
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A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator …
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education in the four-year sector, is 12 percentage points more likely to earn a bachelor's degree, and eventually earns 5 … for the marginal students themselves, 10-12 percent for society (which must pay for the additional education), and 3 …
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling law data across 16 European countries. We analyze effects on pro … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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Argentina was the second largest destination country during the Age of Mass Migration, receiving nearly six million migrants. In this article, we first summarize recent findings characterizing migrants' long-term economic assimilation and their contributions to local economic development. The...
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The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly understood in developing ones despite the importance of these countries as immigrant destinations. We address this shortcoming by studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during...
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We use variation in exposure to victimization of 1,537 households of eastern Congo for each year of 1990-2013 to examine the formation of preferences to participate in armed groups. In this context, most armed groups are Congolese militia, whose objective is fighting foreign armed groups. We...
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Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case of Kenyan flower exporters during the 2008 post-election violence as an example. The violence induced a...
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The Cultural Revolution deprived Chinese students of the opportunity to receive higher education for 10 years when … colleges and universities were closed from 1966-1976. We examine the human capital cost of this loss of education on subsequent … turned 18 during the Cultural Revolution, which sharply reduced their chances of attending college. Using multiple approaches …
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Can efforts to eradicate inequality in wealth and education eliminate intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic … status? The Chinese Communist Revolution in the 1950s and Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 aimed to do exactly that … the pre-revolution generation re-emerges today. Almost half a century after the revolutions, individuals whose …
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