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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling : A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis

de Haan, Monique - 2008

This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …

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Who is sitting next to you? : peer effects inside the classroom

Sok Chul Hong; Lee, Jungmin - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 239-275

We examine college students’ interaction within classrooms and estimate peer effects on their academic performance. We … identification strategy based on students’ repeated interaction. Our findings show that a student’s performance in a class is …- acteristics. Also quantile regressions reveal that peer effects are significant among below-average students and among those at …

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Does the rotten child spoil his companion? : spatial peer effects among children in rural India

Helmers, Christian; Patnam, Manasa - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 1, pp. 67-121

This paper identifies the effect of neighborhood peer groups on childhood skill acquisition using observational data. We incorporate spatial peer interaction, defined as a child’s nearest geographical neighbors, into a production function of child cognitive development in Andhra Pradesh,...

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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis

de Haan, Monique - 2008

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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?

Lundborg, Petter - 2008

treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …

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Understanding the income gradient in college attendance in Mexico : the role of heterogeneity in expected returns

Kaufmann, Katja - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 3, pp. 583-630

Differences in college enrollment between poor and rich are striking in Latin America. Explanations such as differences in college preparedness and credit constraints have been advanced. An alternative explanation could be differences in information sets between poor and rich, for example, about...

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Dynamic skill accumulation, education policies, and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 895-927

Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (Armed Forces Qualification Tests scores), and unobserved heterogeneity,...

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A dynamic model of personality, schooling, and occupational choice

Todd, Petra; Zhang, Weilong - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 1, pp. 231-275

This paper develops a dynamic model of schooling and occupational choices that incorporates personality traits, as measured by the "big five" traits. The model is estimated using the HILDA dataset from Australia. Personality traits are found to play an important role in explaining education and...

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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - 2010

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … instruments in income regressions. …

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Is Earnings Uncertainty Relevant for Educational Choice? An Empirical Analysis for China

Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011

We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...

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