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The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes. We study in an experiment with 525 teenagers how both birth order and siblings' sex composition affect risk, time and social preferences. We find that second born children are...
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Gender-based violence (GBV) at schools is a pervasive problem that affects millions of adolescent girls worldwide. In … girls, regardless of the targeted gender group, providing evidence of the role of improving the capacity of key school … reporting by victims. Our findings suggest that effectively mitigating violence to improve girls’ schooling requires a dual …
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Purchasing life insurance is for the welfare of young children, par-ticularly preteens, who are liquidity constrained. In this paper, we present a life cycle model of life insurance that takes into account the ages of these young beneciaries. We show that, as the child ages, the need for...
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The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family's role in human capital production...
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, to study the impact of immigrant legalization on schooling outcomes. Although undocumented migrants are entitled to … sort out of public education and into private schooling. The IRCA differentially increases Hispanic school board members …
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schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents’ integration. My analysis links administrative records on … discontinuity design around the school enrollment cutoff and an instrumental variable approach I show that children’s schooling …
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Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
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There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
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schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic …
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We combine phone-survey data from 2,200 students collected in July-August of 2020 with student-level administrative data from 54 schools in four Northwestern provinces of Cambodia to investigate the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for grade 9 students. These students were particularly...
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