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that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …
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Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education. …
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The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …
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that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317734
that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005368967
that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566336
data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …
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data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352373
data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education but not income or urbanization is negatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010396744
market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …
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