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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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the age of 50 by parental income for men. However, the longevity gains of men from low-income families seem to have come … at the cost of increased mortality among men who grew up in high-income families. This raises questions about the welfare …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325931
treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325854
to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …. Higher-educated and older parents spend more time with their children. There are significant and positive correlations across … of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model …
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The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … instruments in income regressions. …
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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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We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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Malawi's tracking program raises school participation of top students without a reduction in pupil learning. These findings …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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