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This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status-seeking behavior. Subjects participated in a real-effort task where effort translated into a donation to a charity. Within-subjects we varied the visibility of their performance...
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The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful ?omnibus measure? of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...
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This paper examines how much changing educational disparity for specific causes of death contributed to the change in overall educational mortality disparity between 1981/82 and 1991/92 among Austrian adults aged 30-74 years. Besides specific causes of death, the study also examines educational...
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expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy … may exacerbate income inequality in the long run if for the less skilled dynasties, the benefits of more public spending …-induced tax base erosion is not severe, an expansive income tax policy indeed enhances future human capital for all dynasties, and …
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In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for … the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to …
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Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this paper we examine what has happened to earnings...
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hypotheses. First, there is no disparity in the income and returns to education benefits of the shift to democracy across gender … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education … democracy, gender differences exist. Specifically, I find on average higher income benefits for men post democracy. Nigeria …
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In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support these claims at the micro level. In this study,...
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Mission Sucre students in the state, returns to university level of education declined by about 5.6 percentage points between …
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