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Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education decisions, I instrument for individual schooling using...
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We study the causal effect of maternal education on childhood immunization rates. We use the Compulsory Education Law (CEL) of 1997, and the differentiation in its implementation across regions, as instruments for schooling of young mothers in Turkey. The CEL increased the compulsory years of...
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Demographic and Health Survey, which has a rich special module on early child development. We find a substantial increase in …
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Demographic and Health Survey, which has a rich special module on early child development. We find a substantial increase in …
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This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …
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