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For one more year with you”: changes in compulsory schooling, education and the distribution of wages in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo - 2007
inequality below median income and increases it above median income. There is also evidence in our data that education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268370
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A New Time-Use Diary App to Measure Parental Investments
Bigoni, Maria; Bortolotti, Stefania; Fort, Margherita; … - 2023
sample of more than 500 parents with pre-school aged children. Our findings show that our tool is reliable and delivers high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469459
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Scientifico! like Dad: On the Intergenerational Transmission of STEM Education in Italy
Chise, Diana; Fort, Margherita; Monfardini, Chiara - 2019
sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141323
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Scientifico! like Dad: On the Intergenerational Transmission of STEM Education in Italy
Chise, Diana; Fort, Margherita; Monfardini, Chiara - 2019
sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157020
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The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Results
Jaeger, David A.; Arellano-Bover, Jaime; Karbownik, … - 2021
document the differential responses of students as a function of their country of residence, parental income, gender, and for …University students have been particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We present results from the first wave of … expectations regarding three fundamental aspects of students' lives in the pandemic: the labor market, education, and health. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597565
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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011
decrease in childlessness and an increase in the average number of children per woman. Our findings are robust to a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294896
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; … - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294907
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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2012
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only behaviors in the immediate past are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332393
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Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2010
We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller than the one recently found for the US. By using individual standardized cognitive tests instead of years of schooling as the measure of education we show that the current focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600905
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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2009
We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV estimates suggest that years of schooling have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271261