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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 …

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Who wears the trousers? : a semiparametric analysis of decision power in couples

Lührmann, Melanie (contributor); … - 2007

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Fuzzy differences-in- differences

Chaisemartin, Clément de; D'Haultfœuille, Xavier - 2015

In many applications of the differences-in-differences (DID) method, the treatment increases more in the treatment group, but some units are also treated in the control group. In such fuzzy designs, a popular estimator of treatment effects is the DID of the outcome divided by the DID of the...

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Why the apple doesn't fall far : understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital

Black, Sandra E. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Misreported schooling and returns to education : evidence from the Uk

Battistin, Erich (contributor); Sianesi, Barbara (contributor) - 2006

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Estimating marginal returns to education

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward - 2010

the return to schooling. Some marginal policy changes inducing students into college produce very low returns. -- Returns …

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Testing the correlated random coefficient model

Heckman, James J.; Schmierer, Daniel; Urzua, Sergio - 2010

The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baselinepretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...

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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...

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Tenure, experience, human capital and wages : a tractable equilibrium search model of wage dynamics

Bagger, Jesper; Fontaine, François; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; … - 2014 - rev.

We develop and estimate an equilibrium job search model of worker careers, allowing for human capital accumulation, employer heterogeneity and individual-level shocks. Career wage growth is decomposed into the contributions of human capital and job search, within and between jobs. Human capital...

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Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia

Carneiro, Pedro; Lokshin, Michael; Ridao-Cano, Cristóbal; … - 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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