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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; Danzer, Alexander M. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468150
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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; Danzer, Alexander M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078394
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Determinants of Bilingualism among Children
Chiswick, Barry R.; Gindelsky, Marina - 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 … increases child bilingualism, while a higher level of parental education tends to decrease it. Children of Asian and especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421204
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Determinants of Bilingualism among Children
Chiswick, Barry R.; Gindelsky, Marina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 … increases child bilingualism, while a higher level of parental education tends to decrease it. Children of Asian and especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105075
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296813
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Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool: Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model
Heckman, James J.; Raut, Lakshmi Kanta - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319531
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Are returns to education on the decline in Venezuela and does mission sucre have a role to play?
Gonzales, Naihobe; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009
There is anecdotal evidence that the standard of living for the educated has fallen in Venezuela over the last few years. This evidence comes as a surprise because after experiencing an economic downturn in 2002 and 2003, Venezuela's economy has boomed (gross domestic product growth has hovered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269036
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Welfare usage in the U.S.: does immigrant birthplace and immigration status matter?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269552
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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - 2014
This paper presents the treatment effects from participating in a subsidized vocational training program targeted at women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data from a randomized field experiment to quantify the 6-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435229
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Religious Practice and Student Performance: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
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 (1995-2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882345