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This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children's human capital levels. The analysis …
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This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education – its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children’s human capital levels. The analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626050
This chapter examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. The contributions reviewed come from branches of economics as far apart as...
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East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage and the resultant kinship networks can shape various … data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …
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This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated … multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility … among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education …
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To design an optimal education policy, it is essential to account for the fertility differential between the poor and … children, determine the quality of children by choosing private expenditures on basic education in addition to public … expenditures on basic education, leave a bequest that could be used to finance college education. Moreover, there is an uncertainty …
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This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education – its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children’s human capital levels. The analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003798539
education phenomenon in Vietnam — as a new measure of household investment in children's quality combining it with traditional … measures of household education investments. To assess the quantity-quality tradeoff, we instrument for family size using the … Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) and other sources show that rural families do indeed invest less in the education of school …
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further scrutinizes how these determinants are affected by education. The results show that fear of diseases and involvement … mitigated through education that improves the individual health prevention as well as reduces the influence of clans. Economic … desired fertility between men and women emerges, nevertheless education leads both to reduction and convergence of their …
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Despite a large literature on fertility and education there has been little research on how these joint decisions are … households' decisions on fertility and investments in education respond to both risk and shocks. The data on hurricanes cover the … associated with higher education but the effect is largest for households without land. Negative shocks lead to decreases in both …
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