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The impact of interest in school on educational success in Portugal

Goulart, Pedro; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2011

Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining the weak expenditure-educational success link, a large body of work in educational economics displays that there is a tenuous relationship between a range of school inputs and...

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The lasting impact of mothers' fetal malnutrition on their offspring: Evidence from the China great leap forward famine

Kim, Seonghoon; Deng, Quheng; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Shi - 2010

We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is also negative, but smaller in magnitude than...

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Globalization, gender and development: The effect of parental labor supply on child schooling

Marchand, Beyza Ural; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond - 2011

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 … percent of the improvement in schooling for this age group between the years 1988 and 2000. …

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Are boys and girls affected differently when the household head leaves for good? Evidence from school and work choices in Colombia

Fitzsimons, Emla; Mesnard, Alice - 2008

paid work, whereas for girls we find evidence of the adverse event having a beneficial impact on schooling. To explain …

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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? : Twins, birthweight, and China's one child policy

Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2006

schooling progress, the expected college enrollment, grades in school and the assessed health of all children in the family. We …

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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? Twins, birthweight, and China's 'one child' policy

Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2006

schooling progress, the expected college enrollment, grades in school and the assessed health of all children in the family. We …

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From giving birth to paid labor: the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers

Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2008

Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...

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Family background, gender and cohort effects on schooling decisions

Valbuena, Javier - 2011

In this paper we use unique retrospective family background data from Wave 13 of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) on different birth cohorts to analyze the relevance of family background, in particular parental education, and gender on differential educational achievement. We find...

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Does early life health predict schooling within twin pairs?

Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011

A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under … to schooling available in the literature. …

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Debt relief, demand for education, and poverty

Dabla-Norris, Era; Matovu, John M.; Wade, Paul - 2002

The objective of this paper is to arrive at a better understanding of the implications of debt relief savings for poverty reduction in HIPC countries by focusing on one important channel of impact—human capital accumulation. Our simulation results suggest that poverty and growth objectives...

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