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incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled … rewards were offered. The program also led to some effects in each of the three areas of education, health and work, although …
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effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the … unobserved characteristics, a $300,000 differential in family income generated more than 2 years of education in the early 1980's …
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This paper presents a critical review and synthesis of recent research on the role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States. Relationships reviewed include the effects of religion on investments in human capital, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation...
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This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated … multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility … among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education …
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the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. …
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In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador using a large national database together with self-collected survey data. Using family fixed effects models we find significant positive birth order effects; earlier born children stay behind in their...
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At least a quarter of college students in the United States graduate with more than one undergraduate major. This paper investigates how students decide on the composition of their paired majors - in other words, whether the majors chosen are substitutes or complements. Since students use both...
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In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador using a large national database together with self-collected survey data. Using family fixed effects models we find significant positive birth order effects; earlier born children stay behind in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568726
the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. -- compulsory schooling reforms ; dynamic skill accumulation … ; comparative advantages ; returns to schooling ; education and growth ; dynamic discrete choice ; dynamic programming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522490
This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated … multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility … among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246958