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Roma children in the transformational recession - Widening ethnic schooling gap and Roma poverty in post-communist Hungary

Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor - 2005

(necessary for college entrance). Our results indicate that long-term poverty of the Roma is strongly associated with their high … drop-out rate after 8th grade. Roma poverty has increased considerably with the massive layoffs of unskilled workers since … helps overcoming the adverse effects of long-term poverty on schooling outcomes. …

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Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach

Björklund, Anders; Sundström, Marianne - 2002

This article analyzes whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or mainly due to selection. We use data on about 100,000 Swedish full biological siblings, born in 1951-64, and perform cross-section and...

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Unreported Income, Education and Subjective Well-Being

Molnár, György; Kapitány, Zsuzsa - 2010

reject. People mostly see poverty and marginal labour market status as indicators of laziness and own tax evasion behaviour …

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Education and democratic preferences

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2009

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to...

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A hátrányos helyzetű és roma fiatalok eljuttatása az érettségihez: Egy különösen nagy hosszú távú költségvetési nyereséget biztosító befektetés

Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor - 2006

This study estimates the expected long-term budgetary benefits to investing into Roma education in Hungary. By budgetary benefits we mean the direct financial benefits to the national budget. The main idea is that investing extra public money into Roma education would pay off even in fiscal...

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Expected long-term budgetary benefits to Roma education in Hungary

Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor - 2006

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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 data, I estimate difference-in-differences regressions that exploit variation across counties in recession severity and across cohorts in age at the time of the recession. For...

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Vote-Buying and Growth

Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - 2008

impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show … that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty as taxed wealthy people buy votes from poor people. We then show …

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An Examination of Sheepskin Effects Over Time

Habermalz, Steffen - 2003

Previous empirical specifications are not flexible enough to capture the true pattern of sheepskin effects over time. If the quality of the match between the worker and the job contributes to earnings and if higher ability workers more easily reveal their true productivity, sheepskin effects...

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Does education matter for economic growth?

Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - 2012

Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear...

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