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limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …Human capital investments at an early age appear crucial for individual outcomes. Family size might affect these … investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the …
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schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on … discontinuity design around the school enrollment cutoff and an instrumental variable approach I show that children's schooling … improves the integration of parents along several dimensions, such as labor market outcomes, financial worries, and German …
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Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male … amount of the gender income gap. In this paper we do two things. First, we use a simple household model to better understand … the potential mechanisms driving the child penalty, which include gender norms around child care, female preferences for …
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Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates...
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schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on … discontinuity design around the school enrollment cutoff and an instrumental variable approach I show that children's schooling … improves the integration of parents along several dimensions, such as labor market outcomes, financial worries, and German …
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In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in the German state of Hessen to measure the...
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In this paper, we examine the wage returns to an extra year of primary school using a policy reform in Egypt, which reduced compulsory primary schooling from 6 to 5 years. Since this policy changed the duration of primary school while providing the same diploma, we can estimate the human capital...
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The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition period 2000-04. We find very low returns to education in...
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In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … neighbors, family members, and recent schoolmates. Based on an instrumental variables strategy, we identify strong peer effects … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship. …
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