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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents
Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - 2010
We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our … results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008772608
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Exploitation and growth
McDermott, John Harvey - In: Journal of economic growth 2 (1997) 3, pp. 251-278
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001231791
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Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital
Vandenbussche, Jérôme; Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas - In: Journal of economic growth 11 (2006) 2, pp. 97-127
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003373849
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Education and income of the states of the United States : 1840 - 2000
Turner, Chad; Tamura, Robert F.; Mulholland, Sean E.; … - In: Journal of economic growth 12 (2007) 2, pp. 101-158
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003503708
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Career progression, economic downturns and skills
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2013
This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715115
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Development dynamics : economic integration and the demograpic transition
McDermott, John Harvey - In: Journal of economic growth 7 (2002) 4, pp. 371-409
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001718016
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Decentralizing education resources : school grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010499532