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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents

Carneiro, Pedro (contributor); Meghir, Costas (contributor); … - 2007

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

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The timing of parental job displacement, child development and family adjustment

Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022

, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

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The value of private schools : evidence from Pakistan

Carneiro, Pedro; Das, Jishnu; Reis, Hugo - 2016

Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts for the endogeneity of school fees and the characteristics of students attending the school. As...

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Evaluating marginal policy changes and the average effect of treatment for individuals at the margin

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward - 2009

This paper develops methods for evaluating marginal policy changes. We characterize how the effects of marginal policy changes depend on the direction of the policy change, and show that marginal policy effects are fundamentally easier to identify and to estimate than conventional treatment...

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Trends in quality-adjusted skill premia in the United States, 1960-2000

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae - 2010

This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...

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Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia

Carneiro, Pedro; Lokshin, Michael; Ridao-Cano, Cristóbal; … - 2011

This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model. Identification of the model is given by exogenous geographic variation in access to upper secondary schools. We find that the return to upper secondary schooling varies widely...

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The evidence on credit constraints in post-secondary schooling

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J. - 2002

This paper examines the family income-college enrollment relationship and the evidence on credit constraints in post-secondary schooling. We distinguish short-run liquidity constraints from the long-term factors that promote cognitive and noncognitive ability. Long-run factors crystallized in...

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Labor market discrimination and racial differences in premarket factors

Carneiro, Pedro (contributor); Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2005

We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the labor market are influenced by schooling. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in...

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