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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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Interpreting sustainability in economic terms: Dynamic efficiency plus intergenerational equity
Stavins, Robert N.; Wagner, Alexander F.; Wagner, Gernot - 2002
Economists have expended considerable effort to develop economically meaningful definitions of the somewhat elusive concept of “sustainability.” We relate such a definition of sustainability to well known concepts from neoclassical economics, in particular, potential Pareto improvements (in...
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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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Environmental security and migration: The role of environmental factors as determinants of migration flows in Pakistan
Goria, Alessandra - 1998
This paper investigates the linkages between the environment, income and migration, exploring the role that … allows for the estimation of a migration decision function in two stages, relating migration to income and the environment …, and accounting for the self-selection of migrants. The model in fact consists of two income equations, which explain …
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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...
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