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It has been argued that increased life expectancy raises the rate of return on education, causing a rise in the … investment in education followed by an increase in lifetime labor supply. Empirical evidence of these relations is rather weak … dependence of hazard rates, which determine individuals' behavioral response w.r.t. education, work and age of retirement …
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. The determinants examined within a Tobit model framework include total household expenditure, education levels of parents … and other household characteristics. Such analysis of the household behavior of attempting to provide better education to … their children will highlight the determinants of the demand for education and the intergenerational transfers in Turkey. …
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This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
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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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states. This creates exogenous variation in the availability of higher education, which allows estimating the causal effect … of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … such as obesity. We find large negative effects of education on smoking. These effects can mostly be attributed to …
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This paper analyzes the degree of intergenerational education mobility among immigrant and native-born youth in … and is somewhat greater for NESB families. Finally, the greater importance that NESB mothers attribute to education …
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Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we test for a relationship between schooling and AFQT performance in the NLSY 79 by comparing...
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new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and firstbirth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …-birth. Finally, we find that the education policy was more effective in reducing early marriage than a change in the Civil Code aimed …
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exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline. The effect is robust to …
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be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and whether other education motives were … hypothesis. However, Protestants' education motives went beyond reading the bible. …
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