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Childhood homelessness and adult employment : the role of education, incarceration, and welfare receipt
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Zhu, Anna - 2015
This paper analyzes the long-term consequences of children experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey and administrative data for a sample of...
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The youngest get the pill : ADHD misdiagnosis and the production of education in Germany
Schwandt, Hannes; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2015
education. We find robust evidence for school-entry age related misdiagnosis of ADHD in Germany. Within Germany and … attempt to facilitate and improve the production of education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346593
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Does grief transfer across generations? : in-utero deaths and child outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258168
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Gender bias in education during conflict : cvidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517894
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Gender bias in education during conflict : evidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476468
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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/10013260027
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The evolution of the US family income-schooling relationship and educational selectivity
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2020
effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the … unobserved characteristics, a $300,000 differential in family income generated more than 2 years of education in the early 1980's …
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Can superstition create a self-fulfilling prophecy? : school outcomes of Dragon children of China
Mocan, Naci; Yu, Han - 2020
three micro data sets from China we show that those born in a Dragon year are more likely to have a college education, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295654
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Matching with a handicap : the case of smoking in the marriage market
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2010
We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of …, there being more smoking men than smoking women for all education levels, so that smoking women and non-smoking men are in … education among couples with identical smoking habits. Among non-smoking wives those with smoking husbands have on average 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314277
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Heterogeneity in spousal matching models
Fletcher, Jason; Padrón, Norma - 2015
An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over multi-dimensional characteristics. Importantly, the model suggests specific testable assumptions that allow researchers to uncover marginal rates of substitution (MRS) between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501869