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Double Majors : One for Me, One for the Parents?

Zafar, Basit - 2010

At least a quarter of college students in the United States graduate with more than one undergraduate major. This paper investigates how students decide on the composition of their paired majors? In other words, whether the majors chosen are substitutes or complements. Since students use both...

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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings

Belzil, Christian - 2011

the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature …

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Field Notes from the Super-Storm Sandy Catastrophe

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2012

Sandy struck a strategically important city in a strategically important country within days of a strategically important election. Climate justice has many synergistic and sometimes competing dimensions. Irrespective of the degree to which climate change contributes to any given weather event,...

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Birth Order and Human Capital Development : Evidence from Ecuador

de Haan, Monique - 2012

In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador using a large national database together with self-collected survey data. Using family fixed effects models we find significant positive birth order effects; earlier born children stay behind in their...

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Gender-Differential Effects of Conflict on Education : The Case of the 1981-1993 Punjab Insurgency

Singh, Prakarsh - 2013

which the conflict affected education, we use a unique historical dataset on the annual expenditure decisions by farmers in … the state of Punjab during 1978-1989. We find a significant reduction in expenditure on education by households with a … of the demand-side channels through which conflict affected education …

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The Payoff to School Selectivity : An Application of Dale and Krueger's Method to MBA Programs

Chen, Weiwei - 2013

Many studies find a notable return to college quality. Dale and Krueger (2002, 2011) only do until they address selection bias concerns by proxying for ambition and by matching students with similar admission outcomes but different matriculation decisions. Although we employ similar...

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Childhood Homelessness and Adult Employment : The Role of Education, Incarceration, and Welfare Receipt

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2015

This paper analyzes children's long-term consequences of experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey and administrative data for a sample of...

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The Evolution of the Us Family Income-Schooling Relationship and Educational Selectivity

Belzil, Christian - 2020

effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the … unobserved characteristics, a $300,000 differential in family income generated more than 2 years of education in the early 1980's …

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The Effect of High School Rank in English and Math on College Major Choice

Delaney, Judith - 2020

Using unique data on preference rankings for all high school students who apply for college in Ireland, we investigate whether, conditional on absolute achievement, within school-cohort rank in English and math affects choice of college major. We find that higher rank in math increases the...

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The Effect of Pre-Primary Education on Primary School Performance

Berlinski, Samuel - 2006

Although the theoretical case for universal pre-primary education is strong, the empirical foundation is weak. In this …-primary education on subsequent primary school performance in Argentina. We estimate that one year of preprimary school increases …

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