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Parental separation and children's educational attainment : a siblins approach

Björklund, Anders; Sundström, Marianne - 2002

This article analyzes whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or mainly due to selection. We use data on about 100,000 Swedish full biological siblings, born in 1951-64, and perform cross-section and...

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Education and democratic preferences

Chong, Alberto; Grâdšṭayn, Marq - 2009

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to...

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Unreported income, education and subjective well-being

Molnár, György; Kapitány, Zsuzsa - 2010

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Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment : A Siblings Approach

Bjorklund, Anders; Sundstrom, Marianne - 2021

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Public spending in education and student's performance in Colombia

Heras Recuero, Laura; Olaberría, Eduardo - 2018

Educación. The estimation exploits differences in both policy variables across regions and employs interactions to study if more … variation in education performance in Colombia, a relatively high percentage when compared to those found by other studies … in Colombia, public spending per student and teacher qualifications are positively related to better learning outcomes …

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An empirical analysis of educational attainment and distribution of earnings

Mohanty, Alekha Chandra - In: International journal of business policy and economics 6 (2013) 2, pp. 151-172

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Cross-country data on skills and the quality of schooling : a selective survey

Fuente, Ángel de la; Doménech, Rafael - 2021

Scores in standardized international student achievement tests and some recent adult literacy studies provide interesting data on the quality of educational outputs and on the skill level of the population that can be a useful complement to the data on the quantity of schooling which have been...

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Enhancing human capital at scale

Agostinelli, Francesco; Avitabile, Ciro; Bobba, Matteo - 2021

A two-year randomized evaluation shows that the effectiveness of multi-tasking men- tors on schooling outcomes crucially depends on their training. While a standard training modality in highly marginalized communities in Mexico generates null results, enhanced training yields sizable treatment...

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Chapter 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn – Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure

Bishop, John - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 909-944). 2006

Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to devote to learning per year and (d) Whether to disrupt or assist the learning of classmates. The thousands of studies that have applied human capital theory to the first two...

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Intergenerational effects of education on risky health behaviours and long-term health

Huebener, Mathias - 2017

This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health status. I study the intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling reform in Germany after World War II. Implemented across federal states at different points in time, the...

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