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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …
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We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education …
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data on student- and parent-reported aspirations and attitudes towards education allow us to explore the channels …
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We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
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conducive business regulations amplify the positive impact on firm creation of better education and reduced skill mismatches. To … escape a low-productivity trap, policymakers should thus create a pro-business framework and a well-functioning education …
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This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an … extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome … their education policies if highly productive labor is fully mobile. Extortionary governments' incentives for education …
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We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers … increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on … relationship between education and economic growth that has been found in the empirical macroeconomic literature. Conversely, for a …
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