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an alternative definition of conflict from a different dataset. Gender differential responses are more negative for lower …
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an alternative definition of conflict from a different dataset. Gender differential responses are more negative for lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476468
We examine ten cohorts of male eighth graders in public schools in Chicago, IL: 1995-2004. We find that composite measures of math achievement, reading achievement, and neighborhood SES during elementary school are strong predictors of future felony arraignment and incarceration, even among...
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This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find … steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses …
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-run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. …We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short … latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education …
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their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …
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on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy and welfare outcomes. We argue that omitted variables that may drive education and autonomy are likely to be … autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash …
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effect of education on health, depending on gender. …In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this …
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Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...
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, while individuals always prefer high socioeconomic quality. Furthermore, there is a gender difference in smoking prevalence …, there being more smoking men than smoking women for all education levels, so that smoking women and non-smoking men are in … education among couples with identical smoking habits. Among non-smoking wives those with smoking husbands have on average 0 …
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