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Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices

Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

new needs of the industry by enrolling more in vocational secondary education. We also observe a decrease in academic high …

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Economic vs. Epidemiological Approaches to Measuring the Human Capital Impacts of Infectious Disease Elimination

Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alex; … - 2022

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...

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Gender, Perceived Discrimination and the Overruling of Roe v. Wade

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Secor, Alan - 2025

Have the recent changes in reproductive rights changed women's perceptions of discrimination and fair treatment relative to men's perceptions? To address this question, we collected online survey data (N=1,374) during spring 2023 using a randomized design that provided information about the...

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From Parents' Cradle to Children's Career: Intergenerational Effects of Parental Investments

de Vries, Sander; Ketel, Nadine; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2024

decreases in children's education and increases in boys' criminal behavior. …

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Born at the Right Time: Examining the Effect of Relative Age on Mental Health in Adulthood

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Kuhakoski, Jani; … - 2024

This paper examines the understudied effect of relative age on mental health in adulthood. Our empirical analysis utilizes nationwide Finnish register-based data on mental health, encompassing a spectrum of conditions from severe to less severe mental health problems. To identity causal effects,...

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Flooding the Brains: Natural Disasters, Student Outcomes, and the Urban-Rural Gap in Human Capital

Muñoz-Morales, Juan S. - 2024

This study provides evidence that natural disasters negatively affect student outcomes, potentially explaining the lower academic achievement of students in rural areas compared to their urban counterparts in developing countries. Using data from the Colombian school census, I estimate a...

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Terrorism, Media Coverage and Education: Evidence from Al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya

Alfano, Marco; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022

We examine how terrorism alters the demand for education through perceived risks and returns by relating terrorist … beliefs about risks and returns to education. We exploit the same quasi-experimental variation as in the reduced form analysis …

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Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022

Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970 …

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What Can We Learn from Student Performance Measures? Identifying Treatment in the Presence of Curves and Letter Grades

Waddell, Glen R.; Putz, Jenni - 2022

Grade-based performance measures are often relied on when considering the efficacy of education-related policy …

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The Short- And Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban

Piza, Caio; Souza, André Portela; Emerson, Patrick M.; … - 2022

Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...

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