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Fast Times at Ridgemont High? : The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2004

Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies that increase educational attainment reduce early...

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Under pressure? The effect of peers on outcomes of young adults

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010

variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. …

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Recent developments in intergenerational mobility

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2010

Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics, the literature has...

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Care or cash? The effect of child care subsidies on student performance

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Loken, Katrine V.; … - 2012

Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...

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Intergenerational return to human capital : better educated parents invest more time and money in their children, who are more successful in the labor market

Devereux, Paul J. - 2014

Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … reduce inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive …

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Intergenerational return to human capital : better educated parents invest more time and money in their children, who are more successful in the labor market

Devereux, Paul J. - 2019

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Learning to take risks? : the effect of education on risk-taking in financial markets

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …

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Rank effects in education : what do we know so far?

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022

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Rank effects in education: what do we know so far?

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022

In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...

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Gender and educational achievement: stylized facts and causal evidence

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2021

There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and …

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