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Because much of the concern about youth unemployment is motivated by the large differences between the rates for blacks and whites, we have pursued our earlier work by analyzing separately for black and white youth the relationship between high school preparation and early labor force...
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(work or education), and the permanence spell up to either the return to India or right truncation. By means of survival … migration (age, education, patenting record, migration motives, and migration cohort) as well as of some activities undertaken … while abroad (education and patenting). We find both evidence of negative self-selection with respect to educational …
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is a "horizon" channel in which increased longevity induces additional education. A recent literature devotes much … attention to how much education responds to increasing longevity, while this study asks instead what impact this specific … standard public-economics tool: triangles. I construct estimates of the triangle gain if education adjusts to lower adult …
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We present results from the first study to examine the causal impact of early childhood education on social preferences … a series of incentivized experiments to elicit their social preferences. We find that early childhood education has a …
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specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational … estimation technique: we find that there is no evidence that including the right to education in the constitution has been … associated with higher test scores. The quality of education depends on socioeconomic, structural, and policy variables, such as …
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education on teen fertility for a large sample of women drawn from multiple waves of the Canadian Census. We find that greater … find evidence that education affects the timing of births in a way that strongly implies an “incarceration” effect of … education. In particular, we find large negative impacts of education on births to young women aged seventeen and eighteen, but …
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groups. Those with low education, women, African-Americans, and Hispanics display particularly low levels of literacy …, and poor borrowing behavior can all be linked to ignorance of basic financial concepts. While financial education programs …
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The Ku Klux Klan reached its heyday in the mid-1920s, claiming millions of members. In this paper, we analyze the 1920s Klan, those who joined it, and the social and political impact that it had. We utilize a wide range of newly discovered data sources including information from Klan membership...
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by family income and maternal education. We find that mental health conditions, and especially ADHD, have large negative … effects on future test scores and schooling attainment, regardless of family income and maternal education …
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models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health …'s education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational …
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