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This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages among migrants from the same countries of origin, the...
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. This paper estimates causal effects of additional education on … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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hierarchical contests and comparing the implications of centralized with decentralized governance. Increasing information available …
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How does conflict exposure affect trust? We hypothesize that direct (first-hand) experience with conflict induces parochialism: trust towards out-groups worsens, but trust towards in-groups, owing to positive experiences of kin solidarity, may improve. Indirect exposure to conflict through...
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In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … education enhances the likelihood of greater socio-economic integration in the host society. We first develop a simple …
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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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returns to education accrued to their parents; for girl students, a lower fraction of the return comes to their parental …
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Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
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education closures to estimate the loss in marginal future earnings. The findings show that the school closures reduce future …
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A double disadvantage occurs when the interaction of two disadvantages generates an additional disadvantage. We show that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to the average native, reduces scores in Italian by 17% and...
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