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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019
We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2,800 regions, documenting wide cross-country and especially within-country heterogeneity. Inertia looms large as differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893135
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Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910
Logan, Trevon - 2008
This is the first paper to document the effect of health on the migration propensities of African Americans in the American past. Using both IPUMS and the Colored Troops Sample of the Civil War Union Army Data, I estimate the effects of literacy and health on the migration propensities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771802
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One Step at a Time : The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers
York, Ben - 2014
Large systematic differences in young children's home learning experiences have long-term economic consequences. Many parenting programs place significant demands on parents' time and inundate parents with information. This study evaluates the effects of READY4K!, an eight-month-long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044350
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Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021
How much do sins visited upon one generation harm that generation's future sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters? I study this question by comparing outcomes for former slaves and their children and grandchildren to outcomes for free blacks (pre-1865), and their children and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239163
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The War at Home : Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability
Conley, Dalton - 2011
Prior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military …: household and family life. In the present study we use the same IV approach to model the causal impact of Vietnam- era military …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131668
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The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility : Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk
Malamud, Ofer - 2010
attainment induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War. We use national and state-level induction risk to identify … risk on out-of-state migration also imply that the Vietnam War led to substantial geographic churning in the national labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137017
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Moving Out of Agriculture : Structural Change in Vietnam
McCaig, Brian - 2013
We examine the role of structural change in the economic development of Vietnam from 1990 to 2008. Structural change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073197
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Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam
Bai, Jie - 2013
-industry heterogeneity in growth rates within Vietnam to test empirically whether growth leads to lower corruption. We find that it does. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075412
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The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality : Estimates from the Vietnam-Era Draft Lottery
Conley, Dalton - 2009
Research on the effects of Vietnam military service suggests that Vietnam veterans experienced significantly higher … mortality than both non-Vietnam veterans and the civilian population at large. These results, however, may be biased by non …. The present study generates unbiased estimates of the causal impact of Vietnam era draft eligibility on male mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158538
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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956929