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This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years—which increased the 8th grade completion rate for women by 30 percentage points—on marriage and birth outcomes of teenage women in Turkey. We find that increased compulsory schooling years...
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diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of …
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important, policymakers should invest more in education and other welfare programs in order to mitigate the adverse impacts of …
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-sharing between the two generations, so that poor families experience higher agency costs, therefore inequality persists. …
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In this paper we analyse the correlation between the level of education and the number of children in Italy. We select … 10,720 Italian families from the 2004-2007 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) dataset … analysis. First, we estimate the correlation between the female’s education and her number of children, and then we use also …
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This paper estimates the effects of birth order on education. This paper is the first to control for the mother’s age …
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In this paper we have investigated the impact of the level of education on the number of children in Italy. We have … selected 1,490 families from the 1997- 2005 Longitudinal Investigation on Italian Families (ILFI) dataset. Our dependent … an Instrumental Variable Poisson, where grandparents’ education is exerted as an instrument of parents’ education. In …
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Educational and Occupational Mobility is a cherished dream for all groups of people, more so for those who are at the bottom rungs of society. However, it is often seen that upward mobility is concentrated among the socially well-offs leading to divergence in educational attainment and...
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Mixed-aged classes (MA-classes) are a common phenomenon around the world. In Sweden, these types of classes increased rapidly during the 1980:s and 1990:s. But the scientific evidence of the benefits of MA-classes is not convincing. In this paper, we estimate the effect of attending an MA-class...
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, education for all, gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS and creation of a global partnership for development. To understand … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is … made in this article to demonstrate how increased education opportunities and increased welfare reduces child labour. …
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