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The nutritional returns to parental education:
Alderman, Harold; Headey, Derek D. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
analysis of child growth data for approximately 99,000 children in 19 countries with some of the highest burdens of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114784
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Die Eignung des Taxpayer-Panels zur Identifizierung von Selbstständigen und Gründungen
Suprinovič, Olga; Kranzusch, Peter - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn - 2014
Based on income tax data, statistical information can be compiled on self-employed and business start-ups by field of …, approx. one million are old age pensioners (with additional income from self-employment) and two million part-time self …-employed (i.e. with secondary income). 1.6 million self-employed operate in the liberal pro-fessions, thereof 57 % as main …
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Education and Wage Inequality in Portugal
Budria, Santiago; Nunes, Celso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This article summarises the recent literature on the relationship between inequality in wages and education for Portugal. The main conclusions are the following. First, Portu-gal is one of the OECD countries with lowest educational level. At the same time, re-turns to education are large, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837544
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Heterogeneous Returns to Education Over Wage Distribution: Who Prots the Most?
Balestra, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2013
This study presents evidence of heterogeneous returns to education over the wage distribution. The authors use instrumental variable quantile regression and data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey to identify the causal link between education and wages at dierent quantiles of the conditional...
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The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing
Teal, Francis; Söderbom, Måns - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004
The returns to education remain a central concern for development policy. In developed countries there is evidence that the returns to education have been rising. Evidence for changes over this period for developing countries is limited. In this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to...
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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
Black, Sandra E; Devereux, Paul J; Lundborg, Petter; … - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2015
markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children. …
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DIFFERENT IMPACT CHANNELS OF EDUCATION ON POVERTY
DÍAZ, BLANCA ZULUAGA - In: ESTUDIOS GERENCIALES (2010)
income equation - but as a set of elements whoselength depends on the number of identifi ed poverty dimensions. The … monetaryanalysis employs the Quantile Regression technique, very helpful especiallywhen one is interested in extremes of the income …
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Language Skills and Economic Returns
Garrouste, Christelle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article focuses on the contributions from the emerging positivist epistemological approach, endorsed by the economics of language and the economics of education, to study the returns to language skills, assuming that language competencies constitute key components of human capital. It...
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Education and Italian regional development
Di Liberto, Adriana; Symons, James - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
Given recent emphasis on externality to education, macroeconomic studies have a role to play in the analysis of return to schooling. In this paper we study the connection between growth and human capital in a convergence regression for the panel of Italian regions. We include measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745209
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Sheepskin or prozac: the causal effect of education on mental health
Chevalier, Arnaud; Feinstein, Leon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health, we rely on a rich longitudinal dataset that contains...
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