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The Last of the Lost Generations? Formal and Non-Formal Education in Ghana during Times of Economic Decline and Recovery
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Hammer, Jeffrey S. - 2018
Using a cohort approach, this paper examines educational attainment in Ghana and its potential determinants considering both educational attainment in the formal education system and participation in non-formal education in the form of adult literacy programs. The results indicate an overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873517
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Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment
Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
'Guest workers' earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984655
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The Long-Run Effects of Recessions on Education and Income
Stuart, Bryan - 2019
This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census … capita in their county of birth reduces four-year college degree attainment by 10 percent and income in adulthood by 3 … graduates and $42-$87 billion less earned income per year. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059156
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278806
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Time preferences and lifetime outcomes
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; Lindahl, Lena - 2013
rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291438
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Time Preferences and Lifetime Outcomes
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Grönqvist, Hans; Lindahl, Lena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960125
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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Estimating Returns to Schooling and Experience: A History of Thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469442
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The Family Gap in Career Progression
Kunze, Astrid - 2014
This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421166
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The Family Gap in Career Progression
Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959637