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Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption – A Quantile Regression Approach

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Tauchmann, Harald - 2010

This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children's later consumption of alcohol … effect is more prominent in the upper tail than elsewhere in the distribution of children's alcohol consumption, conventional … regression analyses that focus on the mean effect may substantially underrate parental drinking as a risk factor for children …

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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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Parental Impact on Attitude Formation - A Siblings Study on Worries about Immigration

Brenner, Jan - 2007

home education on attitude formation. Yet, factors such as parents' knowledge, their morals, and their weltanschauung are …

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The Determinants of Smoking Initiation - Empirical Evidence for Germany

Göhlmann, Silja - 2007

This paper aims at analyzing the determinants of the decision to start smoking using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The data used is a combination of retrospective information on the age individuals started smoking and,by tracing back these individuals within the panel...

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Returns to Education in Europe – Detailed Results from a Harmonized Survey

Middendorf, Torge - 2008

We use the European Community Household Panel, a harmonized data set covering the countries of the European Union, to provide detailed estimates of the returns to education. Our results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, average returns to education have been mostly stable during the second...

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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Changing Returns to Education in Portugal during the 1980s and Early 1990s: OLS and quantile regression estimators

Hartog, Joop; Pereira, Pedro T.; Vieira, José A.C. - 1999

This paper examines the evolution of the returns to education in Portugal over the 1980s andearly 1990s. The main findings indicate that the returns to education have increased,particularly after joining the European Union in 1986. Since this occurred along with anincrease in the level of...

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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance

van der Sluis, Justin; van Praag, Mirjam; Vijverberg, Wim - 2003

of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise income by an average of 5.5 percent, which is close to the average …

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Education, Growth and Income Inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; van Rens, Thijs - 2002

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...

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