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The making of social democracy: the economic and electoral consequences of Norway’s 1936 folk school reform
Acemoglu, Daron; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2021
by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …
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The timing of puberty and gender differences in educational achievement
Koerselman, Kristian; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2017
In this paper, we study the effect of the timing of puberty on educational achievement and examine to what extent the gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that combine information on pubertal development with test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704315
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Lost boys : access to secondary education and crime
Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; … - 2019
We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by …
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