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modules modelling retirement rules, retirement behaviours, migrations, education and participation choices, plus a consolle to …
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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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from the 2006 Uruguayan household survey, we evaluate the influence of family structure on education using two different …
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-term impact of pre-primary education on subsequent school attendance and accumulated years of education. Previous research found a … positive effect both on school attendance and accumulated years of education, and this effect magnify as children grow up. But …: spreading out preschool education seems to be not enough to cope with school grade repetition in subsequent years, thus new …
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We examine how the gender composition of students within schools affects their academic performance. For causal identification, we exploit within-school variation in the gender composition because of policy-driven transitions from single-sex to coeducational schools. In Seoul, South Korea,...
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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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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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education. We find robust evidence for school-entry age related misdiagnosis of ADHD in Germany. Within Germany and … attempt to facilitate and improve the production of education …
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For-profit providers have become an important fixture of U.S. higher education markets. Students who attend for … implications for public investments in higher education as well as how students make postsecondary choices …
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This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses its sign for the upper caste, with girls performing...
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