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Spillover Effects of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Schooling
Kemptner, Daniel; Marcus, Jan - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
compromise these results. We also discuss assortative mating and household income as possible channels of causality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021617
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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany: Heterogeneous Effects and Skill Formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory years of schooling and the supply of schools. This allows us to estimate more than one local average treatment effect and heterogeneous effects for different groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128958
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Smoking and Returns to Education: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Reilich, Julia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Looking at smoking-behavior it can be shown that there are differences concerning the time-preference-rate. Therefore this has an effect on the optimal schooling decision in the way that we assume a lower average human capital level for smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399843
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Changing Returns to Education Across Cohorts: Selection, School System or Skills Obsolescence?
Hægeland, Torbjørn - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2001
This paper investigates whether economic returns to education in Norway differ across cohorts. Differences in returns to education may arise from selection effects - the large increase in educational attainment in postwar years may have changed selection into education. They may also result from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980552
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Labor Market Modeling Recognizing Latent Job Attributes and Opportunity Constraints An Empirical Analysis of Labor Market Behavior of Eritrean Women
Arneberg, Marie W.; Dagsvik, John K.; Jia, Zhiyang - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2002
/97 Eritrean Household Income and Expenditure Survey for urban areas. We estimate structural choice probabilities of being in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980719
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and Do Family Background Variables Make Sense as Instruments?: A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Jörn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, A. Roy - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
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