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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
Blundell, Richard W. - 2013
We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyze both the short run incentive effects and the longer run implications of such programs. By allowing for risk aversion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082137
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Girls Helping Girls : The Impact of Female Peers on Grades and Educational Choices
Schøne, Pål - 2017
We use idiosyncratic variation in gender composition across cohorts within Norwegian lower-secondary schools to analyze the impact of female peers on students' grades and choices of STEM subjects. We find that more female peers in lower secondary increases girls' probability of choosing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962264
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Sexual Violence, Title IX and Women's College Enrollment
Marcotte, Dave E. - 2016
Sexual violence has long been a problem on college campuses, yet federal policies to protect students have largely been ineffectual. Spurred by student grievances, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights recently began investigating how sexual assault cases were handled at a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979449
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Girls' Schooling Choices and Home Production : Evidence from Pakistan
Reis, Hugo - 2015
The paper develops and estimates a dynamic structural model that allows for the interrelations between girls' schooling and mothers' labor market participation decision, in a rural area of Pakistan where drop-out rates are considerably high. The model incorporates home production, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009504
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Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling
Elsayed, Ahmed - 2020
Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829930
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Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women's Educational Attainment and Wages
Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2021
hypotheses are tested using data from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, a large-scale survey addressed to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318317
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap : Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2014
influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and …, we find that over the 1861-1901 period family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049743
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Strategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance
Hotz, V. Joseph - 2013
Fueled by new evidence, there has been renewed interest about the effects of birth order on human capital accumulation. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more stringent disciplinary environments in response to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073854
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Family Networks and School Enrolment : Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment
Angelucci, Manuela - 2009
extended family. Using data from the PROGRESA program in Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames … family links of each household to others in the same village. We then exploit the randomized research design of the PROGRESA … the characteristics of extended family. We find PROGRESA only raises secondary enrolment among households that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155164
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The Effect of Family Size on Education : New Evidence from China's One Child Policy
Argys, Laura M. - 2015
Social scientists theorize that the inverse relationship between socio-economic status and family size represents a … in family size or the sex composition of the first two children as an instrument for family size with mixed results. We … exploit a different source of exogenous variation in family size. The One Child Policy (OCP) in China dramatically reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016298