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religious schools, which undertook the bulk of education historically and still cater to large student populations worldwide … education markets. While primary enrollment shifted towards state schools, religious education increased on net as Islamic … secondary schools absorbed the increased demand for continued education. The Islamic sector not only entered new markets to …
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endogenous education. When more physical capital raises the marginal product of skills relative to that of raw labor, an increase … education is chosen optimally, a dynamic equilibrium is characterized by an inverse relationship between the level of human …
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groups. Those with low education, women, African-Americans, and Hispanics display particularly low levels of literacy …, and poor borrowing behavior can all be linked to ignorance of basic financial concepts. While financial education programs …
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The Ku Klux Klan reached its heyday in the mid-1920s, claiming millions of members. In this paper, we analyze the 1920s Klan, those who joined it, and the social and political impact that it had. We utilize a wide range of newly discovered data sources including information from Klan membership...
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income and maternal education. We find that mental health conditions, and especially ADHD, have large negative effects on … future test scores and schooling attainment, regardless of family income and maternal education …
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models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health …'s education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational …
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A structural model of the demand for college attendance is derived from the theory of comparative advantage and recent statistical models of self-selection and unobserved components. Estimates from NBER-Thorndike data strongly support the theory. First, expected lifetime earnings gains influence...
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The educational screening hypothesis states that beyond a certain point schooling functions as a signaling device to identify pre-existing talents. We test for the presence of screening by comparing the schooling and earnings of self-employed workers and of those employed by others in a sample...
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In this paper, we will investigate the effect of six factors on occupational earnings inequality across all occupations in our sample and across occupations in five major Census subgroups. Those six factors are: differences in tasks, different levels of efficiency, institutional factors, time...
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It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase …
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