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, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation and dissolution; and fertility. The paper also comments on the growing …
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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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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a lowfertility indigenous population result in …
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multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility …This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated … among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a lowfertility indigenous population result in … ; redistribution ; ethnic diversity ; fertility ; human capital ; economic growth …
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multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility … society. -- Public education ; private education ; integration ; fertility ; human capital …This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated …
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To design an optimal education policy, it is essential to account for the fertility differential between the poor and … children, determine the quality of children by choosing private expenditures on basic education in addition to public … expenditures on basic education, leave a bequest that could be used to finance college education. Moreover, there is an uncertainty …
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During Vietnam's two decades of rapid economic growth, its fertility rate has fallen sharply at the same time that its … education phenomenon in Vietnam — as a new measure of household investment in children's quality combining it with traditional … measures of household education investments. To assess the quantity-quality tradeoff, we instrument for family size using the …
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education. Accounting for non-employment risk leads to substantial changes in returns while wage risk has little impact. The … employment when calculating returns to education leads to biased estimates. …
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investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … size on children's education. We show that these findings are robust to a number of checks. The effects appear stronger for …
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