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School attendance and literacy before the famine : a simple baronial analysis
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2010
This paper complements a much larger study of school attendance in pre-famine Ireland by FitzGerald (2010). It exploits some of the data generated by that study to analyze further some of the determinants of schooling and literacy in the 1820s and 1840s. -- Ireland ; Economic history ; Literacy...
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More education, less volatility? : the effect of education on earnings volatility over the life cycle
Delaney, Judith M.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2017
Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them from the adverse effects of recessions. We use a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736944
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Early childbearing, school attainment and cognitive skills
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2017
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489910
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Child labour and schooling in South Sudan and Sudan : is there a gender preference?
Berenger, Valérie; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540554
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The dark side of batteries : education, fertility and cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Malpede, Maurizio - 2020
Being rich of crucial minerals might be a leading determinant of local economic development. On the other hand, intensive extraction might prove to negatively affect the health and wealth of people living close to mineral deposits and the surrounding environment. I examine the effects that local...
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The impact of abortion access on violence against women
Muratori, Caterina - 2021
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Covid-19, family stress and domestic violence : remote work, isolation and bargaining power
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Brodeur, Abel; Haddad, Joanne; … - 2020
We study the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a unique … may affect family stress and domestic violence. We find no evidence that changes in work arrangements are related to self …-reported levels of family stress and violence in the home due to confinement, suggesting that remote work on a large scale does not …
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Communal violence in the Horn of Africa following the 1998 El Niño
Weezel, Stijn van - 2016
higher levels of communal violence, something that is well documented in the qualitative literature, but don't face higher …
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Gender altruism and attitudes towards violence against women
Selaya, Pablo; Trifkovic, Neda; Leyaro, Vincent - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014253151