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Compulsory schooling and geographic distribution on voluntary education
Filiztekin, Alpay; Karahasan, Burhan Can - 2015
Compulsory schooling increases average level of education in a country and provides other benefits, its effect on geographical distribution is, however, not obvious. We explore the effect of a sudden change in compulsory schooling in Turkey, that increased mandatory years of schooling from five...
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Estimating regional differences in returns to education when schooling and location are determined endogenously
Suhonen, Tuomo; Pehkonen, Jaakko; Tervo, Hannu - 2010
estimation strategy that takes into account the possible nonlinearities in the effects of the regional variables, as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011570009
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Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-provincial inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou
Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2016
This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in multiple provinces, comparing the province of maximum predicted earnings to the province of residence and assessing the predicted gains from relocation. The paper performs the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867074
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Intergenerational effects of grandparental care on children and parents
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021 - First draft
Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in … children's non-cognitive outcomes and parental well-being. To capture heterogeneous effects on different dimensions of children … panel data set, we analyze age-specific effects for families with children below the age of 11. Our preliminary results …
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The geographic reach of knowledge spillovers : a functional regression approach with precise geo-referenced data
Eppelsheimer, Johann; Rust, Christoph - 2019
This paper applies functional regression to precise geo-coded register data to measure productivity spillovers from high-skilled workers. We use a smoothing splines estimator to model the spatial distribution of high-skilled workers as continuous curves. Our rich panel data allows us to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317611
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Do children prevent their poor old parents from working?
Rao, Ziwei - 2021
exogenous instruments of fertility. The results show strong impact of children on preventing old parents from strenuous works at …
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Educational quality and regional disparity : one application of hierarchical model to Brazilian dataset
Menezes, Tatiane; Soares, Sammara Cavalcanti - 2011
. The objective of this paper is highlighting the importance of quality of education to explain the wide income disparities … (SAEB) for 4th grades of elementary education. The estimation method is the hierarchical regression, which, in this work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527229
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Labor market polarization and intergenerational mobility : theory and evidence
Hennig, Jan-Luca - 2021
between the income of parents and that of their children. To understand the implications of polarization on economic mobility … lower upward mobility for children from low-income parents, higher intergenerational elasticity for children whose parents … middle-wage routine jobs and the rise of both high- and low-income jobs. The latter measures the cross-generational link …
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Disparity in emergency medical services across Japan
Takimoto, Taro; Sakata, Kazuya; Nakajima, Kazunori; … - 2015
By using a prospective, nation-wide, population-based out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) database (All-Japan Utstein Registry, January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2012), we examined the disparity in emergency medical services across Japan and found significant disparities among prefectures. By...
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The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020
I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … children lowers a child's probability of holding a university degree by more than 5 percentage points. I do not find that … income is affected at the beginning of a child's labor market career along the distribution but find a gradual deterioration …
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