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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement : Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2012
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
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Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe
Heckman, James J. - 2010
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149275
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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
Duncan, Greg J. - 2013
-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089006
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A Theoretical Model of the Chinese Labor Market
Fields, Gary S. - 2013
system (hukou). The major existing theoretical models of employment and development – the Lewis model, the integrated labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084668
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Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market
Leuven, Edwin - 2011
to college education. We argue that Duncan and Hoffman's augmented wage equation the workhorse model in the overeducation … literature in which wages are regressed on years of overschooling, years of required schooling and years of underschooling is at …
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Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences
Das, Tirthatanmoy - 2017
This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional, quasi-experimental, and new micro-based structural models, the latter of which gets at population heterogeneity by estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948660
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary S. - 2013
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087872
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Youth Crime and Education Expansion
Machin, Stephen - 2012
We present new evidence on the causal impact of education on crime, by considering a large expansion of the UK post …-compulsory education system that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The education expansion raised education levels across the … whole education distribution and, in particular for our analysis, at the bottom end enabling us to develop an instrumental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105420
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Does Education Reduce the Risk of Hypertension? Estimating the Biomarker Effect of Compulsory Schooling in England
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2010
This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, and from age 15 to 16 in 1973, as sources of exogenous variation in schooling, the regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146170
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Estimating Complementarity between Education and Training
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Kristensen, Nicolai - 2021
permanent endowments as well as on education. We find evidence of statistically significant complementarity, i.e. the higher …
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