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Family structure, economic status, and educational attainment

Boggess, Scott - In: Journal of Population Economics 11 (1998) 2, pp. 205-222

This study examines the effect of family structure on high school graduation by race and gender using data from the first twenty-one waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and recently available retrospective marital histories. The nature of the data allows for a more complete specification...

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Immigrants’ educational disadvantage: an examination across ten countries and three surveys

Schnepf, Sylke - In: Journal of Population Economics 20 (2007) 3, pp. 527-545

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Nutrition Knowledge Versus Schooling in the Demand for Child Micronutrient Status

Block, Steven - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition … - 2002

This study extends the literature on the demand for child height to consider the demand for child micronutrient status. Micronutrient malnutrition is a pervasive and debilitating problem in many developing countries. A central focus concerns the distinct roles of maternal schooling versus...

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Collateral Damage: The Impact of Work Stoppages on Student Performance in Ontario

Johnson, David - C. D. Howe Institute - 2009

noticeable, negative effect on achievement in mathematics; and, work stoppages have much greater adverse effects on students in … both Grade 3 and Grade 6 in schools where more students come from disadvantaged backgrounds. …

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Two Concerns about Rational Choice: Indoctrination and Imperialism

Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

Rational Choice Theory is often criticized to indoctrinate students in a negative, which is supported by some … laboratory experiments. But do students of Rational Choice Theory really behave more selfishly? This paper presents evidence from … reaches significant different results than previous studies: Rational Choice Theory does not indoctrinate students. However …

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TLA – A Innovative Problemsolving Approach to Regional Development

Ionică, Andreea; Băleanu, Virginia; Irimie, Sabina - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 7 (2007), pp. 201-206

The Tourism Learning Areas approach (TLA) develops an innovative approach, that of learning areas, to upgrade skills in the tourism industry, thus enhancing the economic and social dimension in the tourist areas and improving competitiveness. The tourism sector is at the heart of the...

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The Causal Effect of Parent’s Schooling on Children’s Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide … quality of each identification procedure; and (iii) get at better perspective about intergenerational effects of education. We …. Our findings therefore indicate that the estimated impact of parental education on that of their child in Sweden does …

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The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China’s Great Famine

Meng, Xin; Qian, Nancy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In the past century, more people have perished from famine than from the two World Wars combined. Many more were exposed to famine and survived. Yet we know almost nothing about the long run impact of famine on these survivors. This paper addresses this question by estimating the effect of...

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A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy

Vodopivec, Milan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The paper takes advantage of exceptionally rich longitudinal data on the universe of labor force participants in Slovenia and simulates the working of an income contingent loan scheme to partly recover tuition costs. The simulations show that under the base variant (where the target cost...

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Earnings Mobility Among Italian Low Paid Workers

Cappellari, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper uses Italian panel data to analyse transition probabilities at the bottom of the earnings distribution during the 1990s. The analytical framework is characterised by the ability to account for the endogeneity of initial conditions, educational attainment and earnings attrition,...

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