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Each year, many pregnant women fast from dawn to sunset during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Medical theory suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder (2008), and using Indonesian crosssectional data, I...
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There has been a growing literature in both the US (for example Haurin and Brasington 1996, and Black 1999) and the UK (for example Gibbons & Machin, 2003) that estimates the way in which school quality is capitalised into house prices. Cheshire and Sheppard 1995 and 1999 estimated hedonic...
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old), this study analyzes teenagers’ expectations and desires about marriage, having children, and becoming unwed parents … power. Race, ethnicity, gender, type of religious upbringing, parental education, and parental expectations for their child …’s education are aspects of family context that consistently show significant relationships with expectations and desires …
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pathways by which parental status is related to offspring status, including education, labor market attachment, occupation … because of the higher returns to education and skills, the pathway through offspring education is relatively more important …
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and head teachers with Department for Education and Skills school performance data to consider the operation and impact of …
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, responds to a wide range of variables, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work …
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We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner has both a direct and an indirect negative effect on the performance of monitored classes in standardized educational tests. The direct effect is the difference in the test performance between classes of the same...
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This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several …
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In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources … from Britain. A robust finding is that criminal activity is negatively associated with higher levels of education. However …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the …
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productivity, particularly for matches between masses and bourgeois. At the same time, only country-wide education ("unified … education") or the regionally dominant group can choose to implement schooling in its own region but refuse to share the costs …
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