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in a straightforward empirical application of the impact of firmed conflict on schooling different measures for micro …
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We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on … changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors … should indicate declining relative schooling productivity. We find that the price of schooling increased by more than the …
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We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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's subjective well-being (SWB). This paper explores the direct and indirect well-being effects of extra schooling induced through … compulsory schooling laws in Australia. We find the net effect of schooling on later SWB to be positive, though this effect is … larger and statistically more robust for men than for women. We then show that the compulsory schooling effect on male's SWB …
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The Swedish adult education program called Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment...
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consistent with standard human capital models of on-the-job training. Transitory earnings shocks display a marked U …
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children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent … Swedish Twin Registry, we replicate the finding that father's schooling matters more than mother's schooling in a combined … sample of MZ and DZ twin parents. In contrast, results based on MZ twin parents show that mother's schooling matters at least …
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This paper studies how the gradual suspension of an employment guarantee scheme for secondary and post-secondary graduates has affected intergenerational mobility across well-educated cohorts in Egypt. The empirical results support suggestive evidence in the Middle East of a decline in social...
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This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we estimate the contemporaneous effect of the...
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after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …
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