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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325854
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Targeted Advertising and Social Status
Vikander, Nick - 2011
This paper shows how a firm can use non-targeted advertising to exploit consumers' desire for social status. A monopolist sells multiple varieties of a good to consumers who each care about what others believe about his wealth. Advertising allows consumers both to buy different varieties and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325736
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Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health Outcomes, Utilization and Access to Services by Asset Quintile: New Evidence from the FPS and MCHS
Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Cuenca, Janet S.; del Prado, Fatima; … - 2003
This paper addresses the lack of information on the disparity of outcomes, utilization and access to Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health services by socioeconomic classes. Household statistics on these services by asset class are presented in this paper. The asset classes were derived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429713
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Human capital investments in children: A comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - 2010
Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …Eltern investieren in ihre Kinder auf unterschiedliche Weise. Wir untersuchen wie das Ausmaß und die Zusammensetzung …. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290473
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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance
Parker, Simon; van Praag, Mirjam - 2004
We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325395
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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees
van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - 2009
measure ‘income’). This is the case even when estimating individual fixed effects of the differential returns to education for …/or whether we use instrumental variables to cope with the endogenous nature of education in income equations. Finally, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325994
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326044
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Hat eine freiwillige Mitgliedschaft in Berufsverbänden einen Effekt auf das Einkommen von Freiberuflern? Eine Panelanalyse für Deutschland
Rucha, Rafael - 2011
kausale Effekte einer freiwilligen Mitgliedschaft auf das Einkommen von Freiberuflern sichtbar: für Männer betragen sie …To which extent do freelancers experience a causal effect on their income due to a voluntary membership in a … membership in a professional association causes an increasing income. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352718
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Zeit, Wohlstand und Zufriedenheit - multidimensionale Polarisierung von Zeit und Einkommen: Selbständige und abhängig Beschäftigte
Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2016
-employed compared to employees and in particular of couples with several children and single parents; polarization is increasing with …) Polarisierungsansatz von Zeit und Einkommen und der Entwicklung über 20 Jahre in Deutschland analysiert. Mit dem neuen Ansatz zur …; die Polarisierung verstärkt sich mit der Anzahl der Kinder. Und, es gibt bedeutende Unterschiede für unterschiedliche …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607340