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This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
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This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children's human capital levels. The analysis …
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This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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A simple classical-Marxian model of growth and distribution is developed in which education transforms low … who only receive wage income into one in which education and human capital play a major role. We show than an expansion in … education can have a positive effect on growth but by altering the distribution of income rather than by fostering technological …
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parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child perforÿ­mance. We find no effects on …' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of … between matÿ­ernal education and school outcomes. …
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This paper studies optimal taxation of income and education when employers cannot observe workers' productivity and … workers signal their productivity to firms by choosing both quantity and quality of education. We characterize constrained …. Implementation through income and education dependent taxes is discussed, as well as education mandates. A key insight is that …
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Does education lead to political engagement? The empirical literature is mixed. Theory suggests economic context … matters. Individuals unable to take advantage of education in the labor market are more likely to engage in political activity …
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education increases son's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. The estimates are in many cases similar … across research designs and suggest that a substantial part of the effect of parental education on the children's education …
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children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …
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In this paper we examine the effect of family structure on children’s educational outcomes by exploiting the sibling structure in the NLSY and NLSY-Child to control for unobserved heterogeneity across families and individuals. We also compare outcomes for children within the same...
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