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leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age … effects on sons than daughters. We find that the education effects remain significant even when household income is included …. Moreover, decomposing the income when the child is 16 between a permanent component and shocks to income at age 16, only the …
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Raising the quality of education has been one of the main objectives of the current government in Britain. By devoting more resources to the education sector, it is expected that pupils will achieve higher educational attainment by the time their years of compulsory schooling ends. This study...
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This paper reports estimates of the UK 'college premium' for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. This implies that graduate supply...
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We investigate the impact of trade liberalization on wages and the returns to education in Brazil. Our pseudo-panel estimates of the returns are significantly lower than OLS estimates, signifying omitted ability bias in traditional cross-section estimated returns in developing countries. Trade...
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Increasing dispersion in the returns to graduate education is found, using quantile regression. This trend is related to rising overqualification. We distinguish between and validate measures of Real and Formal overqualification, according to whether it is or is not accompanied by...
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thinking that CS could leverage better outcomes than other forms of income support and, using a sample of dependent children in …, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on outcomes for the children concerned. There are good reasons for … least 10 times as large as that associated with variations in other sources of total household net income for two key …
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to save and the willingness to save. The capacity to save depends primarily on the level of per capita income (but non …-linearly) and the growth of income (the life cycle hypothesis), and the empirics strongly support these hypotheses. The willingness …
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