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Talking about the Pigou Paradox: Socio-Educational Background and Educational Outcomes of AlmaLaurea

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

-educational background of university graduates. Parents' educational level seems to be the main determinant of the probability to get a …-educational background on children success at the university is not direct, but through the high school track. In fact, although any … secondary high school gives access to the university, nonetheless lyceums provide students with far higher quality of education …

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Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings

Gensowski, Miriam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

education and IQ are less likely to marry, and thus have less income through their husbands. To identify personality traits, I …

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Returns to University Quality in Australia: A Two-Stage Analysis

Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This study investigates the relationship between university quality and graduate starting salaries using pooled Australian data from the Graduate Destination survey and a two-stage estimation methodology. The results suggest that average starting salaries for young undergraduates differ...

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

measure 'income'). This is the case even when estimating individual fixed effects of the differential returns to education for …/or whether we use instrumental variables to cope with the endogenous nature of education in income equations. Finally, we find …

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Africa’s Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support these claims at the micro level. In this study,...

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Subjective Discount Rates, Intergenerational Transfers and the Return to Schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...

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Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe

Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

complementarities in skill formation. Investments in the human capital of children should expand relative to investment in older workers …

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Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play?

Gonzales, Naihobe; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Mission Sucre students in the state, returns to university level of education declined by about 5.6 percentage points between …

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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education: Simulation Based Evidence

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This study integrates findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation to assess returns to education. Our framework for evaluating the distribution of age-specific returns to investments in cognitive and noncognitive skills is a lifecycle simulation...

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