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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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received less attention is education quality. If technological change that reduces the reliance of production on emissions is … elastic skill supply through better education quality may mitigate adverse economic outcomes, including wage inequality, and … economy's reliance on emissions for production. Having higher quality education - defined as the level of cognitive skills …
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marginal future earnings on the basis of a four-month shutdown. We also estimated the losses by level of education. The …
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below which an increase in income has no impact on child labour and education. We estimate the causal impact of an increase … in income on child labour and education exploiting the random allocation of the Child Grant Programme, an unconditional …, while relatively less poor households reduce child labour and increase education. In policy terms, the results indicate that …
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The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
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Could a partial subsidy for child education increase children's participation in paid work? In contrast to much of the …
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This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …
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