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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015210882
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015210894
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015210915
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351837
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351840
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351860
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351863
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The Evolution of Inequality in Education Trajectories and Graduation Outcomes in the US
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022
We model the joint distribution of (i) individual education trajectories, defined by the allocation of time (semesters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351877
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What Motivates Leaders to Invest in Nation-Building?
Giuliano, Paola; Reich, Bryony; Riboni, Alessandro - 2022
Why do some leaders invest in significant nation-building policies and others do not? Why does nation-building occur at certain junctures in time and not others? In our research, we investigate what motivates leaders to nation build. We argue that threats to their regime motivate rulers to...
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Do STEM Students Vote?
Bell, D'Wayne; Feng, Jing; Holbein, John B.; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
For decades, pundits, politicians, college administrators, and academics have lamented the dismal rates of civic engagement among students who enroll in courses and eventually major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (i.e., STEM) fields. However, the research supporting this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426332