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-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …
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education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …
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models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health …'s education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational …
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I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health … education has productive efficiency and allocative efficiency effects. I then modify these frameworks to allow for the …
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adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of …
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"In advanced economies like the United States, innovation has long been recognized as a central force for increasing socioeconomic prosperity and improving human health. Today, U.S. government policy seeks to promote innovation through a suite of mechanisms, from tax credits in the private...
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greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility … fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …
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ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of …
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Because much of the concern about youth unemployment is motivated by the large differences between the rates for blacks and whites, we have pursued our earlier work by analyzing separately for black and white youth the relationship between high school preparation and early labor force...
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A structural model of the demand for college attendance is derived from the theory of comparative advantage and recent statistical models of self-selection and unobserved components. Estimates from NBER-Thorndike data strongly support the theory. First, expected lifetime earnings gains influence...
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