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Effects of the minimum wage on child health
Wehby, George L.; Kaestner, Robert; Lyu, Wei; Dave, Dhaval - In: American Journal of Health Economics : AJHE official … 8 (2022) 3, pp. 412-448
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367471
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Post-secondary attendance by parental income : comparing the US and Canada
Belley, Philippe; Frenette, Marc; Lochner, Lance - 2010
This paper makes three contributions to the literature on educational attainment gaps by family income. First, we … conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on post-secondary (PS) attendance for recent high … Youth in Transition Survey. We estimate substantially smaller PS attendance gaps by parental income in Canada relative to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003996908
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Post-secondary attendance by parental income in the US and Canada : what role for financial aid policy?
Belley, Philippe; Frenette, Marc; Lochner, Lance - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009236836
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK “college premium” for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. This implies that graduate supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770228
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 110 (2008) 4, pp. 695-709
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003792111
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK college premiumʺ for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. The growth in relative labour demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870319
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The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2007
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1993 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree – the “college premium”. The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled – yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806866
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The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2005
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree dropped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002881213
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The College Wage Premium, Overeducation, and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2021
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree - the "college premium." The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled - yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318481
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Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement
Kaestner, Robert - 2010
In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and children's educational achievement, as measured by … 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which contains a large, national sample of children …-invariant characteristics of the child. Our results suggest that, in general, children who are overweight or obese have achievement test scores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759568