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The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the ineligible children acquire more schooling when the …
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mother and to be in the labor force are considered simultaneously, we find evidence that schooling is positively related to …
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The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the neligible children acquire more schooling when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791928
The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the ineligible children acquire more schooling when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196320
of these, the Millennium Development Goals, call for universal primary schooling and full gender parity by 2015. This … the rates envisioned by the goals have done so in many cases by accepting dramatic declines in schooling quality, failing …
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The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the ineligible children acquire more schooling when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585642
This paper presents a method for estimating returns to schooling that takes into account that returns may be … it explicitly considers that the level of education of each individual is the result of previous schooling choices and so … test for heterogeneity in returns from sequential schooling decisions is developed and expressions for Marginal Treatment …
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While assessing the status of the schooling infrastructure, the evaluation at the aggregate level (at the national or …
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In this paper, using data from the 61st round of the (Indian) National Sample Survey, we examine the relative impacts of personal-household and state-level characteristics (including government policy) on the likelihood of transition from one educational level to the next. Our analysis suggests...
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Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are more likely to enroll in 'Gymnasium', the most...
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