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Land Inequality, Education, and Marriage: Empirical Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia
Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2016
association between average formal education and the share of married women. This finding is in line with recent theoretical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555514
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Landownership concentration and the expansion of education
Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2011
heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants' demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278836
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Religious Practice and Student Performance: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995–2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
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