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Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2019

This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … roughly goes from 1850 to the 1940s and documents the deep determinants of the early phase of female education expansion … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …

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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - 2010

We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural...

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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature

Nathan, Max - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...

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Does globalisation increase child labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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Long-term orientation and educational performance

Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Özek, Umut; … - 2016

We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long …

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Religion in economic history: a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...

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Education, income and happiness : panel evidence for the UK

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2017

nearly two decades, for samples split by education, and age - to our knowledge for the first time. The highly educated went …

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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …

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International education and economic growth

Bergerhoff, Jan; Borghans, Lex; Seegers, Philipp K.; … - 2013

highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of … countries benefit from educating international students. We derive conditions under which international education has a positive … extra growth of 0.049 percentage points. The benefits from international education increase when a country tunes its …

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