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parents may compensate or reinforce children?s endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … own consumption and children?s wellbeing, estimation is complicated by endowment heterogeneity and by the fact that … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents? knowledge of their children?s endowments and about the technology used to …
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This paper assesses the relative importance of local labour market conditions and pupil educational attainment as primary determinants of the post-compulsory schooling decision. Using a nested logit model we formally incorporate the structured and sequential decision process pupils engage with....
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This paper looks at horizontal sex segregation in education as a factor contributing to gender segregation in the labor … (2000), I research whether gender identity affects boys' and girls' educational choices and when the gendered pattern … appears first. Further, I test the hypothesis that single-sex schools attenuate the influence of gender-stereotypes. I use the …
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Over the past 30 years, participation in Further Education (FE) in England has been markedly counter-cyclical. What is more, it has yet to increase beyond the peak of 70% reached in 1993, much to the concern of policy-makers. An obvious explanation for these facts is the availability of labour...
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personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining … educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …
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personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining … educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288938
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
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In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from …
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This paper uses a regression-discontinuity design to identify the causal impact of degree class on the first destinations of UK graduates. We exploit the discontinuous relationship between degree class and the mean grade achieved by graduates in their last year at university, which is induced by...
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