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This chapter is a draft of Chapter 7 of a planned book, Preschool and Jobs: Human Development as Economic Development, and Vice Versa. This book analyzes early childhood programs’ effects on regional economic development. Four early childhood programs are considered: 1) universally accessible...
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This paper is a draft of Chapter 8 of a planned book, Preschool and Jobs: Human Development as Economic Development, and Vice Versa. This book analyzes early childhood programs’ effects on regional economic development. Four early childhood programs are considered: 1) universally accessible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009823
Wellbeing Study, I examine the prevalence of obtaining additional education (N=3812) in the five years after a birth …. Controlling for mothers? background and resources, married mothers are less likely to obtain additional education. Cohabiting … dissolution or divorce are also more likely to obtain additional education. Postnatal educational attainment appears to be an …
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We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents’ involvement in education on … quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents’ involvement in children’s education, indicating cultural complementarity …
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immigrants of German descent and foreign origin persons. Education is a key indicator for future economic and social perspectives …
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In this paper we estimate relative age effects in academic performance using a unique database of students at Bocconi University. The identification exploits school entry cut-off ages that generate up to 11 months difference between the youngest and the oldest students within each cohort. Our...
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This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily attendance was verified through photographs with time...
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We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine the effects of classmate characteristics on economic and social outcomes of students. The unique structure of the Add Health allows us to estimate these effects using comparisons across cohorts within...
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. Similarly to international evidence, we found that education, age, family size, employment and occupation of the household head …'s student enrollment rates over different generations improved considerably, reducing the education-gap compared to Arab men … indirect effect toward the completion of schooling, thus keeping mothers’ fertility relatively high and reducing education …
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, education for all, gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS and creation of a global partnership for development. To understand … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is … made in this article to demonstrate how increased education opportunities and increased welfare reduces child labour. …
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