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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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Éducation et marchés du travail à Brazzaville et Pointe Noire (Congo-Brazzaville)
Kuepie, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe - DIAL - 2011
(english) The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of education on labor market entry, particularly on earnings in the two largest cities of the Republic of Congo. We examine firsthand data from the 2009 Congo's Employment and Informal Sector Survey (Enquête sur l’emploi et le secteur...
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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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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...
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Automatic Selection for Non-linear Models
Castle, Jennifer; Hendry, David - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010
Our strategy for automatic selection in potentially non-linear processes is: test for non-linearity in the unrestricted linear formulation; if that test rejects, specify a general model using polynomials, to be simplified to a minimal congruent representation; finally select by encompassing...
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Education and Labour Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan West Africa
Kuepie, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe; Roubaud, François - DIAL - 2006
(english) The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of education on urban labour market participation and earnings in seven major West African cities. Our results show that although education does not always guard against unemployment, it does increase individual earnings in Abidjan,...
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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...
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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 …
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Preferences over Leisure and Consumption of Siblings and Intra-Household Allocation
Kirchberger, Martina - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
differences in parents' relative altruism.  Families seem to function as market economies in which children trade off leisure and …Children are increasingly treated as active members in the household.  However, their preferences over consumption and … builds a theoretical and empirical model for children's time and consumption allocations in a household.  We test the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004371
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Children and Demand: Direct and Non-Direct Effects
Lechene, Valerie; Browning, Martin - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002
It is universally accepted that children have important effects on household demand patterns. This is usually … attributed to the direct effect of children; for example children are food intensive. Alternative inferences are that the … observed correlations between children and demand patterns are due to non-direct effects, such as fixed effects, state …
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