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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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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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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo; van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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Comparing the returns to education for entrepreneurs and employees
van der Sluis, Justin; van Praag, Mirjam; van … - 2004
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an Entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam; van der Sluis, Justin - 2008
generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …
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