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Ireland’s dramatic economic boom of the 1990s has been referred to as “the era of the Celtic Tiger”. In a little over a decade, real national income per head jumped from 65 percent of the Western European average to above parity, unemployment tumbled from double to less than half the...
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of electoral participation and finds that firstly, their inclusion reduces the impact of education and secondly, that …
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increases in the returns to education in the new market economies has been well documented in the literature, no study to date … including a measure of basic skills reduces the returns to education. In addition, using a partial linear model in which log …
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We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …
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calibrate the model to US data and show that the historical evolution of increasing education and declining labor supply can be …
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exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … institutional conditions of the education system that contribute to educational integration. Using data from five international …)integration is related to institutional characteristics of the schooling system. The study shows that early education, time in school …
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insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
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This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births. We use …. In contrast to studies for other developed countries, we find a significant negative effect of education on fertility … addition, education reduces the probability of first motherhood among women in their early 30s. We attribute these findings to …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
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We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …
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