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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047426
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325931
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325861
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Selective Secondary Education and School Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Malawi
de Hoop, Kobus - 2012
Malawi's tracking program raises school participation of top students without a reduction in pupil learning. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196109
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Earnings Risk and Demand for Higher Education
Hartog, Joop; Serrano, Luis Diaz - 2002
We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325016
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The (un)importance of school assignment
Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023
engagement, having friends, and students' personality. It seems therefore that the concerns that parents of lottery losers …, attitudes towards school, awareness of parents, behavior inside school, behavior outside school, school satisfaction, civic … express about their children's school assignment are based on the characteristics of schools, teachers and peers and not on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469645