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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324255
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Teaching Practices and Social Capital
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
performance is nonlinear. The evidence supports the idea that progressive education promotes social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351521
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The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration: Causal Evidence from Micro-data
Hjalmarsson, Randi; Holmlund, Helena; Lindquist, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367430
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Birth Order Matters: The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment
Booth, Alison; Kee, Hiau Joo - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005
parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971327
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Are Computers Good for Children? The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes
Beltran, Daniel O.; Das, Kuntal K.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
Although computers are universal in the classroom, nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. Surprisingly, only a few previous studies explore the role of home computers in the educational process. Home computers might be very useful for completing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971348
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Birth Order Matters: The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment
Booth, Alison L; Kee, Hiau Joo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123771
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Career Progression and Formal versus On-the-Job Training
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate. We estimate this model on a large administrative panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124058
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Human Capital and the Future of Transition Economies
Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124062
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Unemployment and Increasing Returns to Human Capital
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
unemployment rates. It may be the case that this locus is steep enough to generate increasing returns to education. This may lead … to multiple equilibria: a high-education equilibrium may coexist with a low-education equilibrium. In the former, the … Pareto-ranked, but the latter is preferred to the former by workers, while `savers' prefer the high-education equilibrium. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124159
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Birth Order and Sibship Sex Composition as Instruments in the Study of Education and Earnings
Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Picard, Natalie; Prieto, Ana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
, and uses these variables as instruments to estimate returns to education, with the help of a rich set of individual data … two stage method is used to estimate log-wage equations, taking care of education endogeneity, using birth order and the … number of siblings as instruments. The OLS estimates of returns to education are biased downwards, when females are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124292