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We provide evidence that graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws, originally intended to improve public safety, impact human capital accumulation. Many teens use automobiles to access both school and employment. Because school and work decisions are interrelated, the effects of automobile-specific...
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origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … externalities, quality of governance and increasing return to education. Whilst many scientists and international institutions … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …
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Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration …, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding … result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which may go in both directions. This paper shows that the exit option may …
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education and migration policy … highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of … countries benefit from educating international students. We derive conditions under which international education has a positive …
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This paper explores the intergenerational eects of maternal education on the development outcomes of 24- to 59-month …-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education …
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This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is … aims. First, it draws out the implications for key education policy issues, highlighting which policy ideas can be …
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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nurture interpretation. Once we take account of genes, we find that only the education of mothers matters: the association … between mother's education and child test scores is significant and large, whereas the association between father's education …
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This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation … are estimated to controlfor the endogeneity of education and migrant network variables... …
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examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …
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