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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2010

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …

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Breaking the cycle? The effect of education on welfare receipt among children of welfare recipients

Coelli, Michael B.; Green, David Alan; Warburton, William P. - 2004

themselves. Our data consists of administrative educational records for grade 12 students in a Canadian province linked with … their own and their parents' welfare records. We address potential endogeneity problems by: 1) controlling for ability using … larger for individuals from troubled family backgrounds and low income neighbourhoods. …

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The returns to education: A review of the empirical macro-economic literature

Sianesi, Barbara; Van Reenen, John - 2002

The idea of positive educational externalities is that the benefits of individually acquired education may not be restricted to the individual but might spill over to others as well, accruing at higher aggregation levels, in particular at the macro-economic one. We offer an extensive summary and...

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Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?

van Kippersluis, Hans; O'Donnell, Owen; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2009

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied to linked data from health surveys, tax files and...

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Intergenerational Persistence in the Effects of Compulsory Schooling in the US

Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024

to CS increased children's educational attainment by 0.015 (0.016) years - larger than the average effects on the parents … parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll … attainment of exposed individuals, but also that of their children. We find that one extra year of maternal (paternal) exposure …

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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans; Veenman, Justus - 2013

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data...

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Empirically probing the quantity-quality model

Fitzsimons, Emla; Malde, Bansi - 2010

the main source of random variation in the propensity to have more children, and estimates causal effects using …

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