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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. …

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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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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality, and the Role of Socio-Economic Status

Cramer, Jan S. - 2012

: education, income and wealth are each found to contribute about as much to a longer life as intelligence. The joint effect of … all four variables is dominated by childhood intelligence and adult wealth at the expense of education and income. …

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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality in the Brabant Data Set: First Report

Cramer, J.S. - 2011

The Brabant Data Set, now freely accessible, contains informationon a sample cohort of 3,000 individuals born around 1940 from surveysin 1952, 1983 and 1993, as well as on deaths between 1994 and 2009.In line with numerous epidemiological studies we find that among theearly variables recorded at...

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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality in the Brabant Data Set: Technical Report

Cramer, J.S. - 2011

This technical note consists of three parts. The first describes theorigins of the Brabant data set, the later surveys and the mortalitydata. The second section discusses the variation of mortality rateswith age in the population and in the sample. The third section setsout the proportional...

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