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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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Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Mother Tongue-Based Education on Reading Skills and Early Labour Market Outcomes

Argaw, Bethlehem - 2016

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...

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International Student Exchange and Academic Performance

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Joosten, Wytse; Toivanen, Otto - 2021

significantly. Weanalyze how international student exchange affects students’ academic human capital. Usingdetailed student … findthat, on average, exchange students lose 7%in terms of grades relative to their non-mobile peers, but less so in Erasmus …-facilitated exchange.Since students’ academic performance is an important factor in companies’ hiring decisions, participation in …

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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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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments

Eisenhauer, Philipp - 2014

We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...

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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2008

In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...

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Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages

Piatek, Remi; Pinger, Pia - 2011

effect only translates into labor income via the channel of education. Factor structure models are implemented on an …

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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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