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Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
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Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014563906
Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469793
It is often argued that institutionalized after-school care (ASC) can benefit children lacking adequate homework support at home and, hence, foster equality of opportunity. However, despite considerable policy interest, it is unclear whether these afternoon programs are beneficial for child...
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Der Ausbau hin zu einem flächendeckenden Ganztagsangebot für Grundschüler*innen seit 2003 zielte darauf ab, Chancengleichheit zu fördern. Empirische Analysen auf Basis administrativer Schuldaten aus sechs westdeutschen Bundesländern und dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) zeigen nun...
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used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a 'stoplight' system for in-person instruction. Using administrative … younger children in initial and primary education. The results are robust to specification choice, multiple hypothesis …
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An overall picture of the education system in the countryside reveals that there are still schools that are not … importance that education has in in personal development of individuals and of society implicitly, there are not few schools that … terms of ensuring adequate infrastructure for a quality education or at least comparable to that in the urban area - clean …
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What explains the large cross-country variation in the wage premium for higher education? Economic analyses of wage … differentials by education point to technological change and globalisation, but we know little about the impact of different types … of public policies. We argue that public education spending and tax-transfer policies contain the spread of 'education …
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This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative …
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income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the … level of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas individuals with a low …
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