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, consistent with the transition to employment elevating time pressure and stress. We find no effect on teenagers' education and …
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increase with age. Results are robust to using different measures of inequality (income and maternal education). Gaps are … smaller but generally remain when adjusting for possible explanatory factors (e.g., family structure, parental education …
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Childhood disability is a major health shock that affects parents early in their working life. We estimate its impact on … identify the causal effect of childhood disability we use an event study approach, where we control for a rich set of pre … with a disability has strong negative impact on mothers’ earnings. The effect is persistent and the wage penalty appears to …
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We investigate the assimilation of immigrant youth in Ecuador. Focusing on formal schooling and employing administrative data from high schools, we document subtle ways by which assessment biases against students with an immigrant background play a significant role in this assimilation process....
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different incentives to acquire education for the two ethnic groups. Using rich Danish administrative data, this paper finds … evidence that greater negative attitudes increase incentives for males to acquire education and that networking also increases … immigrant education. …
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education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage …
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productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …
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We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for …
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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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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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