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Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021

Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...

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Remittances and child labor in Pakistan : a tale of complementarities

Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Abbas, Faisal - 2023

We investigate the impact of remittance income on the household decision to send a child to work. Using data from a Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey conducted in the Punjab province of Pakistan in 2014, we isolate the causal impact of remittance income by employing statistical matching to...

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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings : a cross-country study

Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021

of cognitive ability. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing …

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Does schooling improve cognitive abilities at older ages? : causal evidence from nonparametric bounds

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2022

We revisit the much-investigated relationship between schooling and health, focusing on cognitive abilities at older … response. The bounds indicate potentially large effects of increasing schooling from primary to secondary but are also … consistent with small and null effects. We find evidence for a causal effect of increasing schooling from secondary to tertiary …

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The impact of exposure to missionaries on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants in the USA

Larsen, Nicholas; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how potential exposure to missionary activity impacts both English language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study uses the pooled files of the American...

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Mental health, schooling attainment and polygenic scores : are there significant gene-environment associations?

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2019

It is well-established that (1) there is a large genetic component to mental health, and (2) higher schooling … attainment is associated with better mental health. Given these two observations, we test the hypothesis that schooling may … (PGS) for depressive symptoms, schooling attainment and gene-environment (GxE) interactions with mental health (depressive …

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The impact of compulsory schooling on earnings : evidence from the 1999 education reform in Poland

Liwiński, Jacek - 2018

In 1999, a reform of education was implemented in Poland, which added one year to the shortest available educational path, leading to the acquisition of basic vocational education. In the new system, students choosing this path acquire one more year of general education, which, according to the...

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The impact of compulsory education on employment and earnings in a transition economy

Liwiński, Jacek - 2018

countries. However, our study is the first one to estimate the impact of the compulsory schooling extended in a centrally …

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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023

return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage …) estimates internal rates of return from high school and college/university schooling, primarily for native-born white men, but … also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling …

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The political economy of child labor

Dimova, Ralitza - 2021

Concerns about the welfare of working children has over time produced a wide range of international and national interventions in the child labor market, culminating most recently in a commitment to eradicate the worst forms of child work via the attainment of target 8.7 of the Sustainable...

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