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Chapter 1. Nature and Nurture Effects On Childrens Outcomes : What Have We Learned From Studies of Twins And Adoptees?
Sacerdote, Bruce - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 1-30). 2011
intergenerational transmission of educational attainment, income and health vary when a child is being raised by adoptive rather than …
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The impact of family background on educational attainment in Dutch birth cohorts 1966-1995
Atav, Tilbe; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2023
We analyse the evolving impact of family background on educational attainment using administrative data on 2,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children reveal intergenerational elasticities between...
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Gender segregation in the causal effect of foreign direct investment on educational attainment : the Chinese experience
Yao, Yao; Chen, George; Zhang, Lin - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 51, pp. 5889-5903
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Ethnic diversity and educational attainment
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Nuhu, Ahmed Salim - 2015
This study attempts to explain the effects of ethnic and linguistic diversity on educational attainment. We argue that cross-section differences in ethnic and linguistic fractionalization can explain a substantial part of the cross-country differences in educational attainment levels. Using a...
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The impact of college graduation on geographic mobility : identifying education using multiple components of Vietnam draft risk
Malamud, Ofer (contributor); Wozniak, Abigail K. (contributor) - 2008
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Sheepskin or Prozac : the causal effect of education on mental health
Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor); Feinstein, Leon (contributor) - 2006
Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes … but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health …, we rely on a rich longitudinal dataset that contains health information from childhood to adulthood and thus allow us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355560
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International comparisons of rural-urban educational attainment : data and determinants
Ulubaşoğlu, Mehmet A. (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003374431
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The impact of college education on geographic mobility : identifying education using multiple components of Vietnam draft risk
Malamud, Ofer; Wozniak, Abigail K. - 2010
"We examine whether higher education is a causal determinant of geographic mobility using variation in college attainment induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War. We use national and state-level induction risk to identify both educational attainment and veteran status among...
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Redshirting, compulsory schooling laws, and educational attainment
Aliprantis, Dionissi - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732096
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Sheepskin or Prozac : the causal effect of education on mental health
Chevalier, Arnaud; Feinstein, Leon - 2007
Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes … but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health …, we rely on a rich longitudinal dataset that contains health information from childhood to adulthood and thus allow us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799179