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Child Education and Work: Evidence from Mexico's Full-Time School Program

Kozhaya, Mireille; Martínez Flores, Fernanda - 2020

This paper examines the effect of a program that extended the length of a school day to improve schooling quality in Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and child labor of children aged 7 to 14. We take advantage of the staggered implementation of the FTS program...

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Two-Stage Least Squares Random Forests with a Replication of Angrist and Evans (1998)

Kugler, Philipp; Biewen, Martin - 2020

We develop the case of two-stage least squares estimation (2SLS) in the general framework of Athey et al. (Generalized Random Forests, Annals of Statistics, Vol. 47, 2019) and provide a software implementation for R and C++. We use the method to revisit the classic application of instrumental...

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Does the Right to Work Part-Time Affect Mothers' Labor Market Outcomes?

Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah - 2020

higher-order fertility. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate the introduction of a German law in 2001 …

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Heterogeneous Effects of Women's Schooling on Fertility, Literacy and Work: Evidence from Burundi's Free Primary Education Policy

Wild, Frederik; Stadelmann, David - 2020

situated at all wealth levels, the relevant downstream effects of schooling - measured by fertility, literacy and employment … reduced fertility through policy induced education, while there are almost no effects of additional education for non …-poor women. Our findings help in evaluating the generalisability of the nexus between women's education and fertility as well as …

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Socio-economic determinants of child marriage: evidence from the Iranian provinces

Asna-ashary, Mozhgan; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Feizi, … - 2020

We study the socio-economic determinants of child (girls below age of 19 years) marriage using a panel data of thirty Iranian provinces from 2007 to 2015. Our panel fixed effects and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimations show that the level of income per capita (with negative effect),...

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The Long-Term Labor Market Effects of Parental Unemployment

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their children lowers a child's probability of holding a...

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Higher Order Risk Preferences: Experimental Measures, Determinants and Related Field Behavior

Schneider, Sebastian O.; Sutter, Matthias - 2020

Higher order risk preferences are well-known for their relation with precautionary saving or portfolio allocation. Theoretically, they are also connected with other important behavior, such as health-related or eco-friendly behavior, but these relations have never been investigated with field...

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Maternal Age and Offspring Human Capital in India

Perez Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020

The consequences of early motherhood for the offspring are severely understudied, especially in low- and middle-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital in terms of...

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A question of gender? How promotions affect earnings

Zucco, Aline; Bächmann, Ann-Christin - 2020

Occupational positions can explain an important part of the differences in pay between men and women. However, a considerable Gender Pay Gap exists even within the same occupational position. In this paper, we aim at understanding the reasons for the gap within occupational positions and,...

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The glass ceiling revisited: empirical evidence from the German academic career ladder

Heinrichs, Katrin; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2020

Women are underrepresented in leadership positions - academia is no exception. Using data on careers of doctoral graduates in Germany, we study gender differences in the decision to stay at university as a postdoctoral researcher and in the intention to become a professor. We find that gender...

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