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new needs of the industry by enrolling more in vocational secondary education. We also observe a decrease in academic high …
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market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age. …
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variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. …
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: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. In line with most of the literature, we find no effect of mothers’ education … on children’s school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother’s education … small causal effects of parental education can be explained by detrimental effects of higher labour force participation …
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education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is … researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and family background …
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as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest …
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Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies that increase educational attainment reduce early...
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While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
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municipalities with high tuberculosis prevalence gained more in terms of education, earnings, longevity, and height following this …
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This paper documents trends in social mobility in Norway starting from fathers born at the turn of the 20th century and ending with sons born in the 1970s. We measure social mobility with intergenerational income elasticities, associations between fathers' and sons' income percentiles, and...
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