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Jones, Todd R.; Karger, Ezra - 2023

a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase … and a seasonal adjustment to argue that school increases reported crime rates (and arrests) involving 10-17-year …-old offenders by 47% (41%) annually relative to a counterfactual where crime rates follow typical seasonal patterns. School …

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor); … - 2008

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...

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Is traditional teaching really all that bad? : a within-student between-subject approach

Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2009

Recent studies conclude that teachers are important for student learning but it remains uncertain what actually determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the relationship between lecture style teaching and student...

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High school employment and youths' academic achievement

Rothstein, Donna S. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 42 (2007) 1, pp. 194-213

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Women's education and family behavior : trends in marriage, divorce and fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....

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Is marriage always good for children? : Evidence from families affected by incarceration

Finlay, Keith; Neumark, David - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 45 (2010) 4, pp. 1046-1088

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The long-term economic impact of the in utero and postnatal exposure to Malaria

Barreca, Alan I. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 45 (2010) 4, pp. 865-892

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The wealth of Mexican Americans

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 41 (2006) 4, pp. 841-868

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Examining the education gradient in chronic illness

Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal - 2012

This study examines the education gradient in three chronic conditions - diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. In the analysis, we take into account diagnosed as well as undiagnosed cases, and we use methods that account for the possibility that unmeasured factors exist that are...

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