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This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...
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education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption … crises. Finally, we summarize the key issues discussed at the 2021 International Institute of Public Finance Congress and the …
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Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
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data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …
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Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education. …
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economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …
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The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …
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Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But …
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on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …
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education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption … crises. Finally, we summarize the key issues discussed at the 2021 International Institute of Public Finance Congress and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470264