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Are there Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Recent studies have used quantile regression (QR) techniques to estimate the impact of education on the location, scale …

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Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents

Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioural problems … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional … may transmit the effect of maternal education to the child, including family environment and parental investments at …

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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the country’s education budget. We find large positive effects on test …

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Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind

Booth, Alison; Tamura, Yuji - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labour … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …

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Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to...

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Trends in Quality Adjusted Skill Premia in the US, 1960-2000

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...

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Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia

Carneiro, Pedro; Lokshin, Michael; Ridao-Cano, Cristobal; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model. Identification of the model is given by exogenous geographic variation in access to upper secondary schools. We find that the return to upper secondary schooling varies widely...

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Back-to-front Down-under? Estimating the Part-time/Full-time Wage Differential over the Period 2001-2003

Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...

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Training, Minimum Wages and the Earnings Distribution

Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

British workers. We therefore suggest that the minimum wage has the potential to reduce wages inequality in the longer …

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Men at Work in a Land Down-under

Booth, Alison; Katic, Pamela - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

We use new training data from waves 3-6 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey to investigate the training and wages of full-time men. We explore the extent to which the data are consistent with the predictions of human capital theory or with recent alternative theories...

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