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We study the relationship between child work and cognitive development in four Low and Middle Income Countries. We address a key weakness in the literature by including children’s full time-use vector in the analysis, which leads to different findings from previous studies which do not...
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It is well known that in the UK defined benefit pensions are more prevalent in the public sector than in the private sector. Furthermore, we find that the average value of accrual to members of both defined benefit pensions and defined contribution pensions is lower in the private sector than in...
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education, labour supply, and consumption/saving decisions. Altruistic parents make inter vivos transfers to their children … of funding for college education. We find that the current financial aid system in the U.S. improves welfare, and …
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The paper estimates the returns to education for a cohort of individuals born in Britain in March 1958 who have been … education, social class and interest shown in the child's education as well as measures of ability. The nature of our data … from measurement error in education qualification variables which have been found to be important in other studies. The …
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to employment, unemployment or higher education. Family background is an important predictor for participation in higher … education reflecting the degree of rationing in the system. The level of educational attainment influences the probability of … entering higher education or employment. The estimates for earnings functions show large differences across gender with males …
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participation. We build an overlapping generations life-cycle, heterogeneous-agent, incomplete-markets model with education, labor … education. We find that the current financial aid system in the U.S. improves welfare, and removing it would reduce GDP by 4 …
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participation. We build an overlapping generations life cycle model with education, labor supply, and consumption/saving decisions …. Cognitive and non-cognitive skills of children depend on the cognitive skills and education of parents, and affect education … be used to fund education, supplementing grants, loans and the labor supply of the children themselves during college …
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expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …
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