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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
studies, we have found the discount rate to decrease with education. We examine this correlation further by testing the causal … effect of education and exploit two different sources of its variation: school frequency across villages and the number of … education has a significant impact on their discount rate, similar in magnitude for both types of instruments and robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268981
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Religion in Economic History: A Survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270049
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Intergenerational Education Mobility and the Level of Development: Evidence from Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Yazici, Hakki - 2017
characterization of education mobility in Turkey at the national level, including a three-generation mobility analysis. We find that … the education mobility is significantly lower in Turkey compared to developed economies. Second, by exploiting large … regional variation in the level of economic development across Turkey, we find that intergenerational education persistence is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787014
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Gender effects of education on economic development in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - 2012
Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282126
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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279256
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The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
studies, we have found the discount rate to decrease with education. We examine this correlation further by testing the causal … effect of education and exploit two different sources of its variation: school frequency across villages and the number of … education has a significant impact on their discount rate, similar in magnitude for both types of instruments and robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999928
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Do single-sex classes affect exam scores? An experiment in a coeducational university
Booth, Alison L.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - 2013
selection issues present in other studies on single-sex education. We find that one hour a week of single-sex education benefits … classes than their peers attending coeducational classes. We find no effect of single-sex education on the probability that a … female will take technical classes and there is no effect of single-sex education for males. Furthermore we are able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293098
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Stayers and returners: Educational self-selection among US immigrants and returning migrants
Aguilar Esteva, Arturo Alberto - 2013
This paper empirically examines the educational selectivity of United States immigrants and of those that return to their source country. Data from the 1970 to 2000 U.S. Census and the 2010 American Community Survey are employed. Ten countries are selected for the study based on their historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293107
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Immigrant concentration in schools: Consequences for native and migrant students
Schneeweis, Nicole - 2013
primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293116
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Education, social mobility and religious movements: A theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293120