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effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the … unobserved characteristics, a $300,000 differential in family income generated more than 2 years of education in the early 1980's …
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. Because these abilities substantially affect individuals' life trajectories in terms of health, education, and earnings, the …
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. Education is a good option for some, but not for all. Implications for mechanism design and wage support schemes are discussed. …
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three micro data sets from China we show that those born in a Dragon year are more likely to have a college education, and …
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This paper presents the first analysis in the literature of the effect of test-based grade retention on adult criminal convictions. We exploit math and English test cutoffs for promotion to ninth grade in Louisiana using administrative data on all public K-12 students combined with...
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pandemic recession encouraged more young people to complete high school. The pandemic created extensive problems in education …
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This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by the World Bank, affected the cognitive (mathematics and Vietnamese) and non-cognitive (socioemotional) skills of students in that country. We use propensity score matching to...
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from 18 to 16. We show that the reform increased the probability of being neither in education nor in employment and being …
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This paper presents new evidence on the effect of education on financial behavior. In particular, I investigate whether … probability. I identify the causal effects of different types of education on financial behavior by exploiting the GPA admission … thresholds to higher education programs in a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. I compare people who have applied for the …
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We model the joint distribution of (i) individual education trajectories, defined by the allocation of time (semesters …
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