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We use a unique survey of Danes who have emigrated between 1987 and 2002 to study intra-family decision-making on international migration. Our survey reached 582 respondents with a Danish partner who was the same as before emigration. We model family decision-making in a bargaining framework and...
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borrowing decisions in our sample, covering the urban middle-class in an emerging economy. We then test education at school … better education of the mother and encouragement to save by parents. Our findings suggest that regular formal education may …
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data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education but not income or urbanization is negatively …
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. Higher school education and creativity plays determinant roles in explaining the evolution of these clubs. Im- provements in …
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Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
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number of graduates. We use each pupil's comprehensive school grades to control for previous education / pupil quality. Also …
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The national financial literacy strategy for Austria will guide the actions of Austrian stakeholders for the next five years. It creates a Financial Literacy Stakeholder Council and it identifies policy priorities based on evidence. It presents over forty action tools to support the strategy's...
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Poverty, Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in Guatemala. This paper explores the causes of deforestation and biodiversity loss in Guatemala and is organized into 4 parts. First, an overview about deforestation in Guatemala from 1950-2000 is provided, and the relationship between deforestation...
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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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This paper presents an analytical model of the dynamic interrelationships between education, creativity, and happiness …
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