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Education and its effects on income and mortality of men aged sixty-five and over in Great Britain
Dorsett, Richard; Lui, Silvia; Weale, Martin - In: Labour Economics 27 (2014) C, pp. 71-82
We explore the effects of income and, additionally education on the income, self-reported health and survival of men … conventional analysis with its focus on labour income excluding employers' pension contributions. We find that income at age sixty …
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Extended Families and Child Well-being
LaFave, Daniel; Thomas, Duncan - eSocialSciences - 2014
relationship between three measures of health- and education-related human capital of children and the distribution of resources … income and wealth from both coresident and non co-resident family members. …
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How Much Does Social Status Matter to Health? Evidence from China's Academician Election
Liu, Gordon G.; Kwon, Ohyun; Xue, Xindong; Fleisher, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects undergo a shift in their social status without considerable...
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Double Dividend with Involuntary Unemployment: Efficiency and Intergenerational Equity
Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Fodha, Mouez - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 31 (2005) 4, pp. 389-403
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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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Regionale Bildungsrenditen und weitere Disparitäten in Deutschland
Reilich, Julia - In: Review of Regional Research 33 (2013) 1, pp. 49-72
Estimating a return to education für Germany as a whole gives one return on human capital on average. This article extends the existing literature using a regional perspective. On a federal-state-level the regional returns are estimable. Therefore the dataset is separated due to regional...
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Does higher education reduce body weight? Evidence using a reform of the student grant scheme
Greve, Jane; Weatherall, Cecilie D - Rockwool Fondens Forskningsenhed (RFF) - 2013
education and body weight by studying the effect of higher education on body weight according to subgroups of parental income …-weighted. However, we find suggestive evidence that the effect differs by income background. Amongst men who grew up in low-income … probability of being overweight). Amongst men who grew up in middle or high-income households, enrolling in higher education has …
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Chancengleichheit durch den Zweiten Bildungsweg? - Langfristige Arbeitsmarkterträge später Hochschulreife
Sterrenberg, Margret K. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2014
I analyze the long-term labor market returns after completing a higher education entrance (HEE) qualification as a qualified worker older than age 20 (Zweiter Bildungsweg), using data of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). I use a Mincer-type equation, where the school-leaving...
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Education and allocation of skills in Tunisia: evidence from an education reform
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Pellicer, Miquel - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013) 1, pp. 1-21
instrument probably affected the academically weaker students this pattern of results suggests that the public sector might …
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Firm entry deregulation, competition and returns to education and skill
Fernandes, Ana P.; Ferreira, Priscila; Alan Winters, L. - In: European Economic Review 70 (2014) C, pp. 210-230
This paper studies the effect of firm entry deregulation on the returns to skill and education. We exploit a comprehensive episode of entry deregulation, unique in the industrialized world, as a quasi-natural experiment. Using matched employer–employee data for the universe of workers and...
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