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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

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Women's education, marriage, and fertility outcomes : evidence from Thailand's compulsory schooling law

Chaijaroen, Pasita; Panda, Pallavi - 2023

Increased education affects market and non-market outcomes. This paper investigates the causal impact of the extension … of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data …

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Home computer ownership and educational outcomes of adolescents in Greece

Djinovic, Vladana; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2022

In this paper we investigate whether human capital accumulation, during adolescence, depends on home investments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment. Using micro-level data, for children aged 17-18 years old, drawn from the Greek part of the European Union Statistics on...

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Job status, international migration and educational choice

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo … education since, they will be overqualified in the host country. This will have a long run affect. As time goes on, therefore …

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Schooling forsaken : education and migration

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...

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Tax Policy and Returns to Education

Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn B. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

differences in labour supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education …

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Teaching "out of field" in STEM subjects in Australia : evidence from PISA 2015

Shah, Chandra; Richardson, Paul W.; Watt, Helen M. G. - 2020

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education is a critical part of a modern education system … roles through the effects of other factors, such as school sector and education level of parents of students in the school …

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Teaching "out of field" in STEM subjects in Australia : evidence from PISA 2015

Shah, Chandra; Richardson, Paul W.; Watt, Helen M. G. - 2020

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Impact of early childcare on immigrant children's educational performance

Corazzini, Luca; Meschi, Elena; Pavese, Caterina - 2019

This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on second generation immigrant children's cognitive outcomes. Our analysis draws on administrative data on the entire population of students in fifth grade collected by the Italian Institute for the Evaluation of the Educational...

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Does class size matter for school tracking outcomes after elementary school? : quasi-experimental evidence using administrative panel data from Germany

Argaw, Bethlehem Asres; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017

We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the quasi-random assignment of students to different class...

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