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education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an instrumental variables fixed effects model where share of college graduates … is instrumented by the number of universities with special status and find positive external returns to education of … rural, men, and low-educated workers. This finding provides the motivation for increasing education investment in rural …
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We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
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externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …
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We use the extension of compulsory education from five to eight years in Turkey as an instrument for educational … attainment to investigate the causal effects of education on prosocial behavior by utilizing Turkish Time Use Survey data. Ours … is the first paper that investigates the causal effect of education on volunteering. We find that the education reform …
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productivity from adoption of genetically modified soybeans and look at externalities across municipalities sharing the same water …
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This paper studies the long-term effect of radiation on cognitive skills. We use regional variation in nuclear fallout caused by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, which led to a permanent increase in radiation levels in most of Europe. To identify a causal effect, we exploit the fact that the...
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, including age, education, marital status, mental health, life satisfaction, optimism, and physical health. Because there might …
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. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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