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women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority in Hungary. We use a regression discontinuity design identification strategy and show … that the reform decreased the probability of teenage motherhood among Roma women by 13.4-26.0% and delayed motherhood by … two years. We separate the incapacitation and human capital effects of education on fertility by exploiting a database …
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and family factors shared by siblings. We use the PGSs as additional controls in the sibling fixed-effects models to …
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Estimating the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of …
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We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...
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A double disadvantage occurs when the interaction of two disadvantages generates an additional disadvantage. We show that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to the average native, reduces scores in Italian by 17% and...
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This paper develops a model that allows for heterogenous contemporaneous peer effects among different types of agents who are endogenously selected into different peer groups. Using our framework, we characterize the reduced-form coefficient in the peer effect literature and show that it is a...
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choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo … education since, they will be overqualified in the host country. This will have a long run affect. As time goes on, therefore …
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Using longitudinal data from the Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System (INVALSI), this …
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peak among those whose education was no longer compulsory. For schoolchildren in that age group, the negative effect of … increased gender inequality in education among children aged 12 to 18. This result suggests that COVID-19 lockdown measures may … exacerbate harmful traditional practices such as child marriage. …
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An enduring question in education is whether team-based peer learning methods help improve learning outcomes among …
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