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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(S)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Aldashev, Alisher - 2014

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan … bilingualism on earnings while Russian was the official state language in the 1990s. Surprisingly, the Kazakh language continues to …

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Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country : The Case of Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio - 2014

Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey. We contribute to the literature on the economic value of...

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Determinants of Bilingualism Among Children

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2014

This paper analyzes the determinants of bilingualism (i.e., speaks a language other than English at home) among … conducted overall, within genders, and within racial and ethnic groups.Bilingualism is more prevalent if the parents are foreign … bilingualism, while a higher level of parental education tends to decrease it. Children of Asian and especially of Hispanic origin …

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Religious Practice and Student Performance : Evidence from Ramadan Fasting

Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2022

We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995â 2019) across Muslim countries but not other...

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Educational Scores : How Does Russia Fare?

Amini, Chiara - 2015

This paper uses two large multi-country datasets on educational scores – PISA and TIMSS – to examine the performance of Russia in comparative light as well as the factors associated with differences in educational outcomes in Russia. Despite the perception of a positive educational legacy,...

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The Role of Race and Birth Place in Welfare Usage Among Comparable Women : Evidence from the US

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2011

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a way that welfare usage should be based primarily on...

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Welfare Usage in the U.S : Does Immigrant Birthplace and Immigration Status Matter?

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009

The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on comparisons between native born and immigrant households. Analyses that have gone beyond this broad classification have focused on comparisons across race or with particular...

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Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool : Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model

Heckman, James J. - 2013

This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY79 data. The paper finds that preschool investment significantly boosts cognitive and...

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The Women Empowering Effect of Higher Education

Elsayed, Ahmed; Shirshikova, Alina - 2023

We examine the effects of the large-scale construction of public universities in Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s. We found that opening a local university increased the likelihood of obtaining higher education degrees and had long-lasting positive effects on labor market and marriage outcomes,...

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Does Education Really Cause Domestic Violence? Revisiting the Turkish Data

Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), published in AEJ–Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological...

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