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The Long-Run Impact of Childhood Poverty and the Mediating Role of Education

Bellani, Luna - 2017

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes in adulthood in the European Union. We apply a potential outcomes approach to quantify those impacts and we provide a sensitivity analysis on possible unobserved confounders,...

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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness : Theory and an Application to Germany

Peichl, Andreas - 2010

Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper … considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the …

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Class Origin, Family Culture, and Intergenerational Correlation of Education in Rural China

Sato, Hiroshi - 2007

This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from a large survey of households. Three generations who completed education during the period from pre-1949 to the beginning of the 2000s are included. The focus is on the influence...

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Privately managed public secondary schools and academic achievement in Trinidad and Tobago : evidence from rule-based student assignments

Beuermann, Diether W.; Jackson, Clement; Sierra, Ricardo - 2015

Many nations allow private entities to manage publicly funded schools and grant them greater flexibility than traditional public schools. However, isolating the causal effect of attending these privately managed public schools relative to attending traditional public schools is difficult because...

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Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes : Evidence from Sweden's Large Scale Voucher Reform

Bohlmark, Anders - 2012

This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent-school sector at the compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where all public schools were essentially local monopolists, the...

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Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009

Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its … relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning …

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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health : Evidence from Colonial Taiwan

Chang, Simon - 2011

We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan in the early 20th century. We find that malaria exposure...

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Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China

Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020

Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect student's educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not...

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Arrival of young talents : the send-down movement and rural education in China

Chen, Yi; Fan, Ziying; Gu, Xiaomin; Zhou, Li-An - 2018 - This draft: October 2018

This paper studies human-capital spillovers and its persistence by exploiting a unique event in modern Chinahe send-down movement. From 1962 to 1979, the Chinese central government mandated the temporary resettlement of roughly 18 million urban youths to rural areas across the country. The...

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