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The dynamics of international migration: Introduction
Stark, Oded - In: International Review of Economics and Finance 28 (2013), pp. 1-2
growth and welfare; by working out the consequences of the migration of parents for the wellbeing of their children; by …
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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, R.G. - 2017
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
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Do parents expect too much or is it all about grades? : the discrepancy between parents’ aspirations and child’s academic performance, and parental satisfaction with the school
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23
Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children … children’s schooling. The findings suggest that excellent academic performance of the child is associated with higher parental …
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Chapter 12 Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 697-812). 2006
This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
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How Large Are the Effects from Temporary Changes in Family Environment: Evidence from a Child-Evacuation Program during World War II
Santavirta, Torsten - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4 (2012) 3, pp. 28-42
During World War II, some 50,000 Finnish children were evacuated to Sweden and placed in foster families. The …-come first-served policy was applied where the children were assigned a running number and processed anonymously. Using register …
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Income elasticity of child labor : do cash transfers have an impact on the poorest children?
Pellerano, Luca; Porreca, Eleonora; Rosati, Furio Camillo - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/11, pp. 1-21
cash transfer (CT), in Lesotho. We show that the poorest households do not increase investment in children's human capital … CTs might not be always effective to support the investment in children's human capital of the poorest households. Beside …
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Ausbildung, Erwerbsphase, Renteneintritt - demografischer Wandel und optimale Zeitallokation im Lebenszyklus
Debus, Martin; Michaelis, Jochen - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 226 (2006) 6, pp. 611-628
We study how the education and retirement decision of a representative individual is affected by the demographic trend. Individuals optimally choose the date at which they leave school to work and at which they retire. Applying an OLG-model with a pay-as-you-go social security system we show how...
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Stepping stone and option value in a model of postsecondary education
Trachter, Nicholas - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 1, pp. 223-256
A stepping stone arises in risky environments with learning and transferrable human capital. An example is the role played by academic two-year colleges in post-secondary education: Students, as they learn about the uncertain educational outcomes, can drop out or transfer up to harder and more...
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Educational scores: How does Russia fare?
Amini, Chiara; Commander, Simon - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 3, pp. 508-527
This paper uses large multi-country datasets on educational scores – namely PISA and TIMSS – to examine the factors associated with educational outcomes. In particular, it distinguishes between individual and family background factors and those emanating from the school or institutional...
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Incentives from curriculum tracking
Koerselman, Kristian - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 140-150
Curriculum tracking creates incentives in the years before its start, and we should therefore expect test scores to be higher during those years. I find robust evidence for incentive effects of tracking in the UK based on the UK comprehensive school reform. Results from the Swedish comprehensive...
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