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Economic perspectives on the implications of public child care and schooling for educational outcomes in childhood and adult life
Zierow, Larissa - 2017
Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize winner James Heckman shows that skills are built from the early childhood on and increase the returns of later educational inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741826
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Duration and Intensity of Kindergarten Attendance and Secondary School Track Choice
Landvoigt, Tim; Mühler, Grit; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between kindergarten attendance and secondary school track choice in West-Germany. Our analysis is based on a panel of 12 to 14-year olds with information from age two on, drawn from the German SocioEconomic Panel (GSOEP) 1984-2005. We estimate binary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224617
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The Role of Specific Subjects in Education Production Functions : Evidence from Morning Classes in Chicago Public High Schools
Bricker, Jesse; Cortes, Kalena E.; Rohlfs, Chris - 2011
Absences in Chicago Public High Schools are 3-7 days per year higher in first period than at other times of the day. This study exploits this empirical regularity and the essentially random variation between students in the ordering of classes over the day to measure how the returns to classroom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014043028
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The Role of Specific Subjects in Education Production Functions : Evidence from Morning Classes in Chicago Public High Schools
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2010
Absences in Chicago Public High Schools are 3-7 days per year higher in first period than at other times of the day. This study exploits this empirical regularity and the essentially random variation between students in the ordering of classes over the day to measure how the returns to classroom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141234
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Health Endowments, Schooling Allocation in the Family, and Longevity : Evidence from US Twins
Savelyev, Peter A. - 2020
We analyze data from the Minnesota Twin Registry (MTR), combined with the Socioeconomic Survey of Twins (SST), and new mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial casual effect of education on health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852101
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Health Endowments, Schooling Allocation in the Family, and Longevity : Evidence from US Twins
Savelyev, Peter A.; Ward, Benjamin; Krueger, Robert F.; … - 2021
We analyze data from the Minnesota Twin Registry (MTR), combined with the Socioeconomic Survey of Twins (SST), and new mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216567
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Sibling differences in educational polygenic scores : how do parents react?
Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, Anastasia - 2019
We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on parental preferences regarding inequality in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019317
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The theory of differential overqualifications : does it work?
Büchel, Felix; Battu, Harminder - 2002
The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller … empirical test of this theory, until now, has been performed by McGoldrick and Robst (1996). Their results, using US data, do … not support the theory. Using German panel data (GSOEP), we also test the theory of differential overqualification. Unlike …
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The theory of differential overqualifications : does it work?
Büchel, Felix; Battu, Harminder - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001685750
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
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