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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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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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We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … education are still substantial, and amount to a 4 years gain in life expectancy, on average. …
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Large differences in mortality rates across those with different levels of education are a well- established fact. This … association between mortality and education may partly be explained by confounding factors, including cognitive ability. Cognitive … ability may also be affected by education so that it becomes a mediating factor in the causal chain. In this paper we estimate …
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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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multistate hazard model (a 'Timing-of-events'- model) and, for selection into education, by using inverse propensity weighting … based on the probability to attain higher education. We use Swedish Military Conscription Data (1951-1960), for males only …
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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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Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates …
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We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and … parental education and family structure during childhood to male-female and brother-sister differences in teenage outcomes … from an advantageous family environment than do girls in terms of the behavior and grade-school outcomes. Father …
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increase in single-parent households may be contributing to the growing gender gap in education, as boys are more vulnerable to …
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