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greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility … fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …
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education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …
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This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …
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This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter … impact in the UK than in the US as a result of the fertility and education transmission process. When the relative supply of …
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This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages …, education, beauty, and other attributes. We then compute a set of stable matches, which we compare to the actual matches that we … frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage …
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East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage and the resultant kinship networks can shape various … data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …
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effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian …
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We show how to construct a ranking of U.S. undergraduate programs based on students' revealed preferences. We construct examples of national and regional rankings, using hand-collected data on 3,240 high-achieving students. Our statistical model extends models used for ranking players in...
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incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In … biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase …
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Following an influential article by Friedberg (1998), Wolfers (2006) explored the sensitivity of Friedberg's results to allowing for dynamics in the response of divorce rates to the adoption of unilateral divorce laws. We in turn explore the sensitivity of Wolfers's results to variations in...
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