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The Timing of Puberty and Gender Differences in Educational Achievement

Koerselman, Kristian; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2017

In this paper, we study the effect of the timing of puberty on educational achievement and examine to what extent the gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that combine information on pubertal development with test...

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Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...

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More Choice for Men? Marriage Patterns after World War II in Italy

Battistin, Erich; Becker, Sascha O.; Nunziata, Luca - 2020

that men in postwar marriages were better off in terms of their spouse's education, this gain amounting to about half a … year of education. By considering heterogeneity across provinces, we find that the effects were more pronounced in more …

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Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270049

The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway's 1936 Folk School Reform

Acemoglu, Daron; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2021

by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …

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Religion and Growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

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Religion and Growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469638

Religion and Growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469796

Introducing Time-to-Educate in a Job Search Model

Becker, Sascha O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …

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Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2008

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …

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