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-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and … individual differences in hours worked and education explain the remaining part almost equally. We show how our model is a … education. Finally, because policy changes induce simultaneous movements in observed choices and average per-year effects …
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In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called "ethnic Germans" who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are entitled...
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order has a significant and large effect on children?s education; children born later in the family obtain less education …
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One important incentive for a regional, decentralised university- and college structure is that higher education … paper is to investigate the function of the higher education institution due to the local, regional and national recruitment … to high education and the local, regional and national distribution of the supply of post-graduates. The investigation is …
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Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which investments and time allocation differ by age. Using data on test scores and schooling from rural India, we show that...
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We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare programs in the world, on human capital investment. Since NREGS increases labor demand, it could increase the opportunity cost of schooling, lowering human capital investment even as...
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We study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes by exploiting a unique feature of … education and are 27 percentage points more likely to be in school compared to their untreated siblings. Instrumental variables … grade repetition harms subsequent school progression and that pre-primary education appears as a successful policy option to …
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We simulate a two period olg-model with heterogeneous agents. Parents receive utility from quantity and quality of their offspring. Generating a trade-off between the former and the latter, an increasing wage rate leads to higher opportunity costs, lower fertility, and higher quality of the...
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This article analyzes the effect of free public education on fertility, private educational investments and human … human capital levels are crucial for implications of free education. At early stages of development, if parental human … capital is low, free access to basic education may provide the only chance to leave poverty. In contrast, at advanced stages …
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While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children’s outcomes such as education and earnings …
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