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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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treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …
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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 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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Ample evidence is available for the effect of competition on educational quality as only a few countries allow large scale competition. In the Netherlands free parental choice is present since the beginning of the 20th century, which can be characterized as a full voucher program with 100%...
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This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children …
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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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The paper studies the effects of cross-country differences in the productionprocess of human capital on income … effect upon intragenerational income inequality and growth along theequilibrium path. We also indicate how the level of …
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The paper studies the determinants of income distribution and growth in an overlapping generations economy ….Heterogeneity in income results from the distribution of human capital acrossindividuals in a non-degenerate way. The human capital … production is affected by 'home-education' , provided bythe parents, as well as 'public-education , which is provided equally to …
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of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise income by an average of 5.5 percent, which is close to the average …
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