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This Paper studies the design of education policies in a setting of successive generations with heterogeneous … individuals (high and low earning ability). Parents’ investment in education is motivated by warm-glow altruism and determines the … probability that a child has high ability. Education policies consist of a subsidy on private educational investments and possibly …
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the two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves …
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This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on … clarify where empirical work on education using macro data may be relatively useful. It is argued that on balance, the recent … cross-country evidence points to productivity benefits of education that are at least as large as those identified by labour …
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We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several …
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, and higher-education reform in emerging market economies. …
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can speak the same language. The value of trade increases in each participant's level of education. We compare a bilingual … education system, under which the individuals who take education become bilingual, with a unilingual system, under which the … optimal when education levels are centralized. In the decentralized equilibrium, individuals (i) vote over education systems …
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data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …
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, education and labor market success. We conclude that there do not appear to be serious harmful health effects of moderate …
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this accomplishment? The theoretical literature and attendant empirical evidence are inconclusive. Using data for 2.9 million wage earners in Hungary we find that the male/female difference...
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