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Growth, Distance to Frontier and Composition of Human Capital

Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas; Vandenbussche, Jérôme - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

the two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves …

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Child Education and Work Choices in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Fitzsimons, Emla; Gomez, Ana; Lopez, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a quasi-experimental approach, our methodology makes use of an interesting feature of the data, which allows us...

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Career Progression and Formal versus On-the-Job Training

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate. We estimate this model on a large administrative panel data...

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Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents

Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioural problems … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional … may transmit the effect of maternal education to the child, including family environment and parental investments at …

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