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We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards...
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education, determinants of the demand for services of the PTCs, cost of PTCs and evidence on the effectiveness of PTCs. …
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work activities, while remittances are used to finance education when households are faced with these shocks. This suggests …
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economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …
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The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …
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management of prisoners has changed, with more prisoners being encouraged to undertake some form of education, training and … 2003 Survey of Prisoners in Western Australia, the decision of prisoners to invest in education/training during their … prison term and the potential labour market outcomes of this investment. The results suggest that prisoners use education …
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This paper tests whether family size has a causal effect on girls' education in Mexico. It exploits son preference as … instrumental variables. Overall, it finds no evidence of family size having an adverse effect on education, once the endogeneity of …
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This study estimates the expected long-term budgetary benefits to investing into Roma education in Hungary. By … money into Roma education would pay off even in fiscal terms. In order to be successful, investments should take place in … investing into somebody's education will lead to benefits not only to the person in question but also to the whole society. We …
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This study estimates the expected long-term budgetary benefits to investing into Roma education in Hungary. By … money into Roma education would pay off even in fiscal terms. In order to be successful, investments should take place in … investing into somebody's education will lead to benefits not only to the person in question but also to the whole society. We …
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education, determinants of the demand for services of the PTCs, cost of PTCs and evidence on the effectiveness of PTCs …
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