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This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …
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We employ a standard identification strategy from the peer effects literature to investigate the importance of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects. We use detailed information on friends in the Adolescent Longitudinal Health Survey (Add Health) to construct two network...
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Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on …
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households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. …
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This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980’s and the early 1990’s. …
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to remedy. We also show that cognitive ability is not the only determinant of education, labor market outcomes and …
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Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as...
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their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …
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This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are identified by the Distinctive Jewish Name (DJN)...
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the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable general equilibrium model with overlapping … generations of individuals, and endogenous education decisions. Human capital is made of two substitutable components, experience … and education, both of them evolve endogenously over time. We calibrate this model on the post-war period and run …
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