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This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages …, education, beauty, and other attributes. We then compute a set of stable matches, which we compare to the actual matches that we …
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associations with adult health. Net of adolescent influences, completed education has a significant association with adult health …
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1970 -- the income gap between the US and the sending country, the education gap between the US and the sending country …
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The Ku Klux Klan reached its heyday in the mid-1920s, claiming millions of members. In this paper, we analyze the 1920s Klan, those who joined it, and the social and political impact that it had. We utilize a wide range of newly discovered data sources including information from Klan membership...
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income and maternal education. We find that mental health conditions, and especially ADHD, have large negative effects on … future test scores and schooling attainment, regardless of family income and maternal education …
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models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health …'s education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational …
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Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal … base. As education raises the benefits of civic participation, it raises the support for more democratic regimes relative …
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Florida. Fixed effects estimates of the impact of participating in the GED education program show post-release quarterly … who participated in GED-related prison education programs but left prison without a GED show no systematic evidence of an …
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I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health … education has productive efficiency and allocative efficiency effects. I then modify these frameworks to allow for the …
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This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes …
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