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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 … works through improving children's skills and health. …
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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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' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of … parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child perforÿ­mance. We find no effects on … intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnÿ­ings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers …
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Asian Americans faced a disproportionately larger surge in unemployment rates than other racial and ethnic groups during the Covid-19 pandemic. While existing literature typically examines labor demand channels to explain this, we instead explore a labor supply channel. Our hypothesis is that...
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This article analyzes income redistribution in the inter-ethnic context. The model shows that redistribution in favor of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the contributing local skilled, slows human capital...
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determinant of the distribution of world population and a prime cause of the Great Divergence in income per capita across … nations they were directed towards investment in education and growth in output per capita. International trade enhanced the …
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growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We …
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This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...
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gains from trade have been directed towards investment in education and growth in income per capita, whereas a significant … establish that indeed trade has positive effects on fertility and negative effects on education in non-OECD economies, while …
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This paper studies the impact of global factors on patterns of basic research across countries and time. We rely on the records of major scientific awards, and on data dealing with global economic and historical trends. Specifically, we investigate the degree to which scale or threshold effects...
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