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Parental guidance and supervised learning
Lizzeri, Alessandro; Siniscalchi, Marciano - 2006
We propose a simple theoretical model of supervised learning that is potentially useful to interpret a number of empirical phenomena. The model captures a basic tradeoff between sheltering the child from the consequences of his mistakes, and allowing him to learn from experience. We characterize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266272
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320529
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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis
Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994- 2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320559
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Siblings and Educational Attainment in West Germany
Blaess, Virginie - 2005
suggest that boys are favored by their parents relative to girls. Furthermore, the gender of their siblings shows no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297262
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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence From Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932956
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Long-run expectations of households
Breunig, Christoph; Grabova, Iuliia; Haan, Peter; … - 2019
The rational expectations assumption, e.g. in life-cycle models and portfolio-choice models, prescribes agents to have model-consistent beliefs and to avoid systematic prediction errors. In reality, justi cation and identification of expectations are nontrivial. One way to solve this problem is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290349
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The private and fiscal returns to higher education: A simulation approach for a young German cohort
Fischer, Benjamin; Hügle, Dominik - 2020
through the tax-and-transfer system, cohort effects, and the effect of income pooling within households. For this purpose we … system and income pooling within couple households affect private returns and decompose the fiscal returns into its major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405654
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Returns to investment in education: The case of Turkey
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019
and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156200
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Commute time in Brazil (1992-2009): Differences between metropolitan areas, by income levels and gender
Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Schwanen, Tim - 2015
according to income levels and gender. This paper is based on the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) carried out by the … (MAs) in the country, than the in the other MAs. Second, workers in the poorest population segment (1st income decile … times. However, these worsening conditions have been more pronounced in the 1st income decile and especially the 7th-10th …
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