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persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …
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This paper develops a model of crime in which human capital increases the opportunity cost of crime from foregone work and expected costs associated with incarceration. Older, more intelligent, and more educated adults should commit fewer street (unskilled) crimes. White collar crimes decline...
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, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …
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, we find that the children of persons affected in utero also have lower cognitive scores, suggesting a persistent …
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estimate changes in the effects of ability and family income on educational attainment for youth in their late teens during the … cohorts, while family income plays little role in determining high school completion in either cohort. Most interestingly, we … document a dramatic increase in the effects of family income on college attendance (particularly among the least able) from the …
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The basic canonical model fails to predict the aggregate college premium outside of the original sample period (1963-1987) or to account for the observed deviations in college premia for younger vs. older workers. This paper documents that these failings are due to mis-measurement of the...
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This paper estimates the effects of educational attainment and school quality on crime among American women. Using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments, we estimate significant effects of schooling attainment on the probability of incarceration using Census data from 1960-1980....
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using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …
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markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children …
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their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies …
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