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hours on household chores also reduces. We find that school enrollment and child labor are highly substitutable in rural … more successful than child labor laws in combatting child labor - as monitoring school enrollment is much easier. …
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papers, and two policy notes on Out of School Children (OOSC) in the Philippines. These PIDS papers examined the magnitude of … the reasons why these children are out of school, and what makes children at risk of dropping out of school; and, discuss … estimates of out of school (both in magnitude and rates) ; profile OOSC and their families, as well as provide a discussion of …
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across children to minimize its impact on formal education. …
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This study estimates the effect of compulsory schooling on earnings. For identification, I exploit a German reform that extended the duration of secondary schooling in the 1960s. I find that hourly wages increase by 6%-8% per additional year of schooling. This result challenges prior findings...
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This study estimates the effect of compulsory schooling on earnings. For identification, I exploit a German reform that extended the duration of secondary schooling in the 1960s. I find that hourly wages increase by 6%-8% per additional year of schooling. This result challenges prior findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908790
hours on household chores also reduces.We find that school enrollment and child labor are highly substitutable in rural … more successful than child labor laws in combatting child labor—as monitoring school enrollment is much easier …
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This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5771 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …
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This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223667