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The health returns to schooling—what can we learn from twins?

Lundborg, Petter - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 2, pp. 673-701

This paper estimates the health returns to schooling, using a twin design. For this purpose, I use data on monozygotic twins from the Midlife in the United States survey. The results suggest that completing high school improves health, as measured through self-reported health, chronic...

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Returns to education in the Irish youth labour market

Barrett, Alan; Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian - In: Journal of Population Economics 12 (1999) 2, pp. 313-326

increased generosity of income support available to them. …

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The knowledge lift: The Swedish adult education program that aimed to eliminate low worker skill levels

Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2004

on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment and annual income, as well as on the labor market equilibrium …

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Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden – education, returns to education and overeducation

Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived …

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Income receipt and mortality - evidence from Swedish public sector employees

Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

effect is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience …

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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes

S. Scholte, Robert; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, … - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...

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Time preferences and lifetime outcomes

Golsteyn, Bart; Grönqvist, Hans; Lindahl, Lena - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly … Swedish longitudinal dataset that links information from a large survey on children’s time preferences at age 13 to …

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