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We use the high IQ Terman sample to estimate relationships between education, socioemotional skills, and health … subjects, education is linked to better health-related outcomes, in contrast to previous evidence. Conscientiousness, Openness …
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This paper studies how the gradual suspension of an employment guarantee scheme for secondary and post-secondary graduates has affected intergenerational mobility across well-educated cohorts in Egypt. The empirical results support suggestive evidence in the Middle East of a decline in social...
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The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … combined direct and indirect (spillover) effects. Thus, the analysis suggests that a key way that English education purports to …
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– in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools …
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This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the … educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we …
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We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to teaching classes. Our results suggest that a one standard...
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system, but pursue different education policies. The same results found previously across countries hold within Germany …
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randomized evaluations of developing country education interventions in the literature.This very effective program does indeed …
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and the opportunity costs of higher-education rise, eligible individuals may reduce investments in schooling …
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In this paper we investigate the effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes using data from … dominance assumptions and (3) we consider education and labor market outcomes observed for individuals in their early 30s. The … results show that Head Start has a statistically significant positive effect on years of education, in particular for women …
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