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Does the culture in which a woman grows up influence her labor market decisions once she has had a child? To what extent might the culture of her present social environment shape maternal labor supply? To address these questions, we exploit the setting of German reunification. A state socialist...
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mothers with university education, there is no difference in the math achievement of girls and boys. We use the experimental …
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profitability of crime relative to education. These assumptions allow us to study the effect of social interactions on crime. We … and show that policies that decrease the cost of education for talented students may increase the vulnerability of less …
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We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary …-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and reduce earning inequalities between workers, but only by transferring income … from workers to capitalists. Further, the overall effect of an increase in education depends on the actual characteristics …
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