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One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient …
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pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could have large returns. Using British data, maternal education is found to be … positively correlated with birth weight. We identify a causal effect of education using the 1947 reform of the minimum school … identification across cohorts but also within cohort. We find modest but heterogenous positive effects of maternal education on birth …
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children born during this nativity slump perform worse from an early age onwards. Consistent with negative...
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One of the most consistent findings in studies of electoral behaviour is that individuals with higher education have a … relationship between education and voter turnout. Moreover, country-specific institutional and economic factors do not explain the … education on voter turnout, such that the education gradient in voting is greater in U.S. States with the harshest …
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children born during this nativity slump perform worse from an early age onwards. Consistent with negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268880
One of the most consistent findings in studies of electoral behaviour is that individuals with higher education have a … relationship between education and voter turnout. Moreover, country-specific institutional and economic factors do not explain the … education on voter turnout, such that the education gradient in voting is greater in U.S. States with the harshest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279278
One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233844