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Acess to Treatment and Educational Inequalities in Cancer Survival
Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - CESifo - 2013
The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627563
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Growth and Enduring Epidemic Diseases
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - CESifo - 2006
This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196229
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Growth and Enduring Epidemic Diseases
Bell, Clive - 2006
This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779950
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Access to Treatment and Educational Inequalities in Cancer Survival
Fiva, Jon H. - 2013
The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085751
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Preferences, Selection, and Value Added: A Structural Approach Applied to Turkish Exam High Schools
Akyol, S. Pelin; Frisancho, Verónica; Krishna, Kala M.; … - CESifo - 2013
What do applicants care about when choosing a school in Turkey? Are their preferences vertical or horizontal? Which school attributes seem to matter? Do selective schools con-tribute to their students’ success, or is their performance attributable to the higher ability of the students they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010671573
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates—to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates—in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583656
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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094337
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Entry Through the Narrow Door : The Costs of Just Failing High Stakes Exams
Machin, Stephen J. - 2018
In many countries, important thresholds in examinations act as a gateway to higher levels of education and/or good …-secondary high-level academic or vocational track and of starting tertiary education. Those who fail to pass the threshold are also … more likely to drop out of education by age 18, without some form of employment. The moderately high effects of just …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916530
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The Effects of School Integration : Evidence from a Randomized Desegregation Program
Bergman, Peter - 2016
This paper studies the impact of a desegregation ruling on several medium-run outcomes. This ruling mandates that seven school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school students who apply to transfer from a nearby,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979105
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Extracurricular Educational Programs and School Readiness : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment with Preschool Children
Makles, Anna - 2016
This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996262