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Inequalities in the opportunity to obtain a good education in low-income countries are widely understood to be related … to household resources and schooling quality. Yet, to date, most researchers have investigated the contributions of these … whether schools exacerbate or compensate for existing household-based inequalities. The paper develops a new variance …
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A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short-run (end-of-year evaluation) and in the long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to other evaluation approaches, this model captures essential treatment heterogeneity and...
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this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour …The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In … sequential outcomes by means of a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with the literature on vocational education programmes …
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Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...
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Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...
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The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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We utilize a natural experiment, an education reform increasing compulsory schooling from five to eight years in Turkey …, to obtain endogeneity-robust estimates of the effect of male education on the incidence of abusive and violent behaviour … against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence …
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There is hardly any study on learning inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic in a low-income, multi-country context …. Analyzing 34 longitudinal household and phone survey rounds from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, and …. We find that policies targeting individual household members are most effective for improving learning activities …
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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …
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