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investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit …
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both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with …This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …
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This paper studies the effect of the end of school summer breaks on SARS-CoV-2 cases in Germany. We exploit variation in the staggered timing of summer breaks across federal states which allows us to implement an event study design. We base our analysis on official daily counts of confirmed...
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We use event-study models based on staggered summer vacations in Germany to estimate the effect of school re-openings after the summer of 2021 on the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Estimations are based on daily counts of confirmed coronavirus infections across all 401 German counties. Our results are...
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This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we estimate the contemporaneous effect of the...
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years of schooling. We also estimate bounds on the effect of education on arranged marriage when exclusion restrictions are …Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use … war disruptions and spatial indicators of schooling supply as instruments. The point estimates indicate that a year of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289838
This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we estimate the contemporaneous effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652098
both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with …This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822853
years of schooling. We also estimate bounds on the effect of education on arranged marriage when exclusion restrictions are …Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use … war disruptions and spatial indicators of schooling supply as instruments. The point estimates indicate that a year of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575482
A well-established empirical literature suggests that individual wages are persistent. Several theoretical arguments … support this empirical finding. Yet, the standard approach to the estimation of schooling returns does not account for this … commonly used static-model estimators of schooling coefficients are subject to an omitted-variable bias which can be named …
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