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This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of …. Overall, secondary education therefore seems to impact students'cognitive skills in adolescence especially through …
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migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … and education outcomes. We also find that what the literature has always done (using contemporaneous measure for parental …
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education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in … and peer effects are important channels in the education-health nexus, and all of these factors explain almost half of the … education's impact. These suggest that CSLs have improved national health significantly in China and the findings help to …
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CCT programs have become the anti-poverty program of choice in many developing countries. Numerous evaluations, often based on rigorous experimental designs, leave little doubt that such programs can increase enrollment and grades attained--in the short term. But evidence is notably lacking on...
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qualitative leap in the development of education, healthcare and the pension system. We need fundamental changes in these sectors …
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number of graduates. We use each pupil's comprehensive school grades to control for previous education / pupil quality. Also …
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in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on …-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …
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the costs and benefits of smaller classes concludes that other education policies, such as tutoring, early childhood …
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The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...
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We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
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