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The quality of age reporting in Ireland worsened in the years after the Great Irish Famine (1845-1852), even as other measures of educational attainment improved. We show how demography partly accounts for this seemingly conflicting pattern. Specifically, we argue that a greater propensity to...
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'Upper tail knowledge', embodied by knowledge elites, has been suggested to be a driving force of industrialization and development, yet measuring it remains problematic. Despite some recent innovations, much empirical work continues to rely on measures of 'average' or 'non-upper tail' human...
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music education. The evidence suggests that parental musical background matters for composers' prominence, that the effects … music education in conservatories increases the relative prominence of female_composers. …
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There have been many studies estimating the causal effect of an additional year of education on earnings. The majority … such estimates. However, remarkably, while the majority of these studies find substantial gains from education, a number of … extra year of education: an average of 8.5%. But the pattern of reported returns shows clear evidence of publication biases …
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The impact of remittances on households left behind by migration is ambiguous a priori due to competing income and substitution effects. We offer new evidence on the effect of remittances on household investment decisions. We enrich our analysis using microdata from five sub-Saharan African...
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We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...
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