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In this paper, I examine the relationship between sibling sex composition and educational achievement. First, I replicate the study of Butcher and Case (1994) using data on a more recent birth cohort. Contrary to the findings of that study, I find basically no effect of sibling sex composition...
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explained by the positive association between height and both income and education, both of which are positively linked to …
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We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …
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In this article we review the literature on financial literacy, financial education, and consumer financial outcomes … addresses whether financial education improves financial literacy or personal financial outcomes. We discuss the extent to which … on the efficacy and cost of financial education. Finally, we discuss directions for future research …
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have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …
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This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century disenfranchisement of black citizens in the U.S. South. Using adjacent county-pairs that straddle state boundaries, I examine the effect of voting restrictions on political competition, public goods, and factor markets....
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This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills--personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences--that are valued in the labor market, in...
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associations with adult health. Net of adolescent influences, completed education has a significant association with adult health …
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education and business. After initial choices, those respondents with high levels of religiosity are more likely to enter … college. Of those who are in college, people with high levels of religiosity tend to go into the humanities and education over …
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Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …
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