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Pennies from heaven? Using exogeneous tax variation to identify effects of school resources on pupil achievements

Hægeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2008

Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous allocation; families sort themselves non-randomly into school districts and school districts...

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Koulutus työmarkkinasignaalina

Leino, Topias - 2008

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signalling and on education as a job market signal. Possible economic implications of educational job market signalling to an individual and the society are represented based on existing theories. The paper also reviews...

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Ceiling and Floors : Gender Wage Gaps by Education in Spain

de la Rica, Sara; Dolado, Juan José; Llorens, Vanesa - 2005

This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data from the ECHP (1999). Quantile regressions are used to estimate the wage returns to the different characteristics at the more relevant percentiles and a suitable version of the...

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Explaining Youth Labor Market Problems in Spain: Crowding-Out, Institutions, or Technology Shifts?

Jimeno, Juan F.; Felgueroso, Florentino; Dolado, Juan José - 2000

This paper examines the empirical evidence regarding the poor performance of the youth labor market in Spain over the last two decades, which entails very high unemployment for both higher and lower educated workers, symptoms of over-education, and low intensity of on-the-job training. It also...

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Analyzing Religiosity Within an Economic Framework: The Case of Spanish Catholics

Garza, Pablo Brañas; Neuman, Shoshana - 2003

Using a sample of Spanish Catholics, we examined the level of religiosity (measured by beliefs, prayer and church attendance) and the relationship between religiosity and various socio-economic variables. An Ordered Logit estimation of religiosity equations showed that: women are more religious...

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Does child spacing affect children's outcomes? Evidence from a Swedish reform

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2009

In this paper, we provide evidence of whether child spacing affects the future success of children. As an exogenous source of variation in child spacing, we make use of the introduction of an administrative rule in the parental leave benefit system in Sweden. This rule made it possible for a...

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The duration of paid parental leave and cildren's scholastic performance

Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's...

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Social stratification and out-of-school learning

Andersson, Christian; Johansson, Per - 2009

To study effects of out-of-school learning we use data on boarding home pupils who attended elementary public schools … the home environment on average: the pupils at the boarding homes had daily scheduled time for doing their homework under … based on the distance to the nearest school and had, thus, no direct connection to pupils' skills which simplifies the …

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How unilateral divorce affects children

Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2008

Using U.S. Census data for the years 1960-1980, we study the impact of unilateral divorce on outcomes of children (age 6-15) and their mothers. We find that the reform increased mothers' divorce, decreased family income and increased the fraction of mothers below the poverty line. For children,...

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Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality : Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2005

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides new evidence on the roles of socioeconomic...

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