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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling : a nonparametric bounds analysis
Haan, Monique de - 2008
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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling : a nonparametric bounds analysis
Haan, Monique de - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376535
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The impact of family background on educational attainment in Dutch birth cohorts 1966-1995
Atav, Tilbe; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2023
,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014380703
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Earnings risk and demand for higher education
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002
We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an experimental analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011 - This draft April 28 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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Student academic performance in undergraduate managerial-accounting courses
Al-Twaijry, Abdulrahman Ali - In: Journal of education for business 85 (2010) 6, pp. 311-322
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Assessing the disconnect between grade expectation and achievement in a business statistics course
Berenson, Mark L.; Ramnarayanan, Renu; Oppenheim, Alan - In: Journal of education for business 90 (2015) 2, pp. 72-80
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A literature review of the impact of extracurricular activities participation on students' academic performance
Seow, Poh-Sun; Pan, Gary - In: Journal of education for business 89 (2014) 7, pp. 361-366
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Does relative grading help male students? : evidence from a field experiment in the classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2014
that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …
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