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Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …
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The wage expectations of European college students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …
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Subjective Discount Rates, Intergenerational Transfers and the Return to Schooling
Hansen, Jorgen; Belzil, Christian - 2004
Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...
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Structural estimates of the intergenerational education correlation
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - In: Journal of applied econometrics 18 (2003) 6, pp. 679-696
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Structural estimates of the intergenerational education correlation
Belzil, Christian (contributor); Hansen, Jörgen (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Structural Estimates of the Intergenerational Education Correlation
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021
ability, household background variables (especially parents' education) account for 68% of the explained crosssectional … explained variation in wages is accounted for by parents' background variables as opposed to 73% by unobserved abilities …
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The economic value of higher teacher quality
Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2010
"Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of altered teacher quality. This paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with the economic impact of higher achievement. It begins with an overview of what is known about the relationship between...
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The economic value of higher teacher quality
Hanushek, Eric Alan - In: Economics of education review 30 (2011) 3, pp. 466-479
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The wage expectations of European business and economics students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 39 (2004) 4, pp. 1116-1142
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The wage expectations of European college students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001593939