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Child Labor, School Attendance, and Intrahousehold Gender Bias in Brazil

Emerson, Patrick M.; Souza, André Portela - In: The World Bank Economic Review 21 (2007) 2, pp. 301-316

differently because of differences in parental preferences or differences in how additional schooling affects sons' and daughters … child labor and schooling decisions of a family, even though most theoretical work on child labor has assumed a unitary … the male and female heads. Because the impact of both parents' human capital on the labor status and schooling of children …

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Short- and Long-Term Impact of Violence on Education: The Case of Timor Leste

Justino, Patricia; Leone, Marinella; Salardi, Paola - In: The World Bank Economic Review 28 (2014) 2, pp. 320-353

This paper analyzes the impact of the wave of violence that occurred in Timor Leste in 1999 on education outcomes. We examine the short-term impact of the violence on school attendance in 2001 and its longer-term impact on primary school completion of the same cohorts of children observed again...

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Measurement Error in Schooling: Evidence from Samples of Siblings and Identical Twins

Light, Audrey; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 5 (2006) 1

Abstract The value of sibling data for identifying the causal effect of schooling on wages hinges on our ability to … eliminate biases due to the mismeasurement of schooling. Analysts typically assume errors in schooling reports are "classical …

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Measurement Error in Schooling: Evidence from Samples of Siblings and Identical Twins

Light, Audrey; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 5 (2006) 1

The value of sibling data for identifying the causal effect of schooling on wages hinges on our ability to eliminate … biases due to the mismeasurement of schooling. Analysts typically assume errors in schooling reports are "classical." In this …

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Assessing the Impact of Remittances on Schooling: the Mexican Experience

Borraz, Fernando - In: Global Economy Journal 5 (2005) 1

Woodruff (2003) the results obtained from Census data indicate a positive and small effect of remittances on schooling only for …

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Parental Background and Earnings: German Evidence on Direct and Indirect Relationships

Cornelissen, Thomas; Jirjahn, Uwe; Tsertsvadze, Georgi - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 228 (2008) 5-6, pp. 554-572

schooling. In a second step, we run wage regressions to examine direct effects. Our results suggest that the direct and indirect … interaction effects play an important role. The returns to schooling depend on the employees' parental background. …

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Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany – The Last Five Decades

Heineck, Guido; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 229 (2009) 1, pp. 36-60

Summary Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve “equality of opportunity”, i.e. to guarantee all pupils independent of parental background equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields...

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“Civilization” in History and Ideology Since 1800

Manning, Patrick - In: New Global Studies 16 (2022) 3, pp. 325-344

civilization through science, ideology, and schooling. Scientific exploration of civilization was an implementation of emerging … institutional structures; shifting balances of societies and regions; and more attention to the historical role of schooling and …

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Education For Education...Or For Skills?

Hanushek, Eric A. - In: Development Outreach 13 (2011) 1, pp. 32-35

transformation of schooling throughout the world. …

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Why Aren't Children Learning

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - In: Development Outreach 13 (2011) 1, pp. 36-44

We are five years away from 2015, the year when the Millennium Development Goal of universal education is supposed to be achieved, and the school attendance numbers do look good. In many parts of both East and West Africa, and almost all of South Asia, school enrollment has grown rapidly, with...

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