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communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …
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in the Becker tradition are reminiscent of models of labor markets in which firms and workers are independent decision …
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year later delayed the age of first birth by 0.5 years. Parental education and wealth also had important effects on … additional years of schooling of her mother. Overall, the results provided rigorous evidence for the critical role of education … – both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …
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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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of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …
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Goldin and Katz [2002], in an influential paper, argued that giving unmarried minors access to the contraceptive Pill was instrumental for women's professional advancement, because such access allowed marriage to be postponed. However, by 1960, married women could get the Pill and thence it is...
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We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …
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by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and …
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and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …
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explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labor supply … educational investments and labor force participation based on matching regimes. …
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