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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later: linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …

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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?

Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …

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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China

Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011

We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wage distributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing the Bachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue as predicted by theory. The dispersions in...

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Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance : does schooling provide earnings insurance?

Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; 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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Culture and student achievement: the intertwined roles of patience and risk-taking

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2020

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

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Vocational high school graduate wage gap : the role of cognitive skills and firms

Hartog, Joop; Raposo, Pedro S.; Reis, Hugo - 2018

Comparing cohorts born between 1951 and 1994, we document and interpret changes in the wage differential among graduates from secondary education with a vocational and a general curriculum. The wage gap initially increased and then decreased. We find that these changes cannot be attributed to...

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A risk augmented mincer earnings equation? : taking stock

Hartog, Joop - 2009

, potential bias from unobserved heterogeneity and selectivity and consider the core issue of students' information on benefits …

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It's the opportunity cost, stupid! : how self-employment responds to financial incentives of return, risk and skew

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011

wages given up as an employee. Information on income from self-employment is of inferior quality and this is not just a … that it is not only the location of an income distribution that matters and that dispersion and (a)symmetry should not be …-employment ; wage-employment ; income distribution ; income risk ; income skew ; income variance ; occupational choice ; labor market …

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Compensating wage differentials for schooling risk in Denmark

Diaz-Serrano, Luis (contributor); Hartog, Joop (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Earnings risk and demand for higher education : a cross-section test for Spain

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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