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selection into college might also drive the relationship between college education and geographic mobility. We explore this …
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In this paper I consider the impact of attending a selective high school in the UK. Students are assigned to these schools on the basis of a test taken in primary school and, using data on these assignment test scores for a particular district, I exploit this rule to estimate the causal effects...
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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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This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …
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Literature examining immigrants' educational disadvantage across countries focuses generally on average differences in educational outcomes between immigrants and natives disguising thereby that immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group. The aim of this paper is to examine educational...
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Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide … quality of each identification procedure; and (iii) get at better perspective about intergenerational effects of education. We …. Our findings therefore indicate that the estimated impact of parental education on that of their child in Sweden does …
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While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patient´s demand for health services, and that …
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There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school expenditure has increased by about 40 per cent in real...
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We analyze the way women's education influences the effect of children on their level of labor market involvement. We … education work more before the birth of the first child, but children have larger negative effects on their level of labor … market involvement. Differences across education levels are more pronounced with respect to full time employment than with …
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parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child performance. We find no effects on … health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of time … education and school outcomes. …
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