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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 …

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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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The Effect of a Social Experiment in Education

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Marten - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001

The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education reform in Sweden which was implemented in the 60s. The reform was preceded by a ``social experiment''...

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Returns to Education in Australia

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

Using data from the 2001-2005 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, and taking …

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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...

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Estimates of the causal effects of education on earnings over the lifecycle with cohort effects and endogenous education

Migali, Giuseppe; Walker, Ian - Department of Economics, Management School - 2011

This paper acknowledges that the relationship between log wages and schooling is considerably more complex than the simple human capital earnings function suggests and that schooling is endogenous. We estimate a model where educational attainment is discrete and ordered and log wages are...

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Schooling returns, schooling decisions and educational finance

Harmon, Colm - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2002

closely, so as to investigate the effect of variables such as family income on that choice. Proposed educational finance … households and individual students for participation in education, thus reducing the opportunity cost of staying on at school …

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Estimating Private Returns to Education in Mexico

Harberger, Arnold C.; Guillermo-Peón, Sylvia - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 49 (2012) 1, pp. 1-35

This study explores the relationship between education and wages in Mexico. It contributes to our understanding of the structure of wages, helping explain individuals’ choices concerning education level. First, we estimate the age-earnings functions for each level of education. Then, taking...

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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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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre; Dias, Monica Costa; Meghir, Costas - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2015

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...

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