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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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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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Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
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, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower share of older members. We then use the reform period as an …
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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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, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower share of older members. We then use the reform period as an …
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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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Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189825
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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