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Fernández, Raquel; Rogerson, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility …'s (1997) finding of a basically insignificant effect of marital sorting on inequality, we find that increased marital sorting … will significantly increase income inequality. Three factors are central to our findings: a negative correlation between …

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Immigration and the School System

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...

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School Achievement and Labour Market Outcomes

Marks, Gary; Ainley, John - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999

Achieving well in school, and completing Year 12, have significant employment and earnings outcomes for young people a decade or more after leaving school. Early school leavers have less chance of securing full-time employment, and a problematic early start in the labor market can be difficult...

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Immigrant Earnings Change: The Importance of Australian Schooling.

Will, L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

It is shown, both theoretically and empirically, that failure to take age at arrival into account leads to some bias in estimates of earnings change with years since migration. In addition, the analysis reveals that results are sensitive to the approach taken to inclusion of information on...

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Estimation of Class-Size Effects, Using 'Maimonides' Rule': The Case of French Junior High Schools

Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Mahjoub, Mohamed Badrane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

enrollment in each year, in our exceptional data set. We control for father occupation, mother education and other variables …

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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...

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Growth Effects of Education and Social Capital in the OECD Countries

Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on … clarify where empirical work on education using macro data may be relatively useful. It is argued that on balance, the recent … cross-country evidence points to productivity benefits of education that are at least as large as those identified by labour …

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Does Market Liberalization Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986-98

Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this accomplishment? The theoretical literature and attendant empirical evidence are inconclusive. Using data for 2.9 million wage earners in Hungary we find that the male/female difference...

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Unilingual versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis

Ortega, Javier; Tangeraas, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

can speak the same language. The value of trade increases in each participant's level of education. We compare a bilingual … education system, under which the individuals who take education become bilingual, with a unilingual system, under which the … optimal when education levels are centralized. In the decentralized equilibrium, individuals (i) vote over education systems …

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Schooling and Youth Mortality: Learning from a Mass Military Exemption

Cipollone, Piero; Rosolia, Alfonso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several …

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