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Engaging girls in math : the unequal effects of text messaging to help parents support early math development
Doss, Christopher; Fricke, Hans; Loeb, Susanna; … - In: Economics of education review 88 (2022), pp. 1-18
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection on unobserved skills : new evidence
Hebsaker, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-9
, specifically their educational improvement in comparison to their parents' level of education. Next, the estimates are compared …
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The decline of routine tasks, education investments, and intergenerational mobility
Bennett, Patrick; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in … inequality in the next generation. Low-ability and low-SES students are most responsive to task-biased demand changes and, as a …
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Earnings risk and demand for higher education
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002
We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
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Formelle und informelle berufliche Weiterbildung und Verdienst bei Arbeitnehmern und Selbständigen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
The paper investigates determinants of formal and non-formal continuous vocational training and its income effects … on income are rather small or equal to zero with the self-employed and rather high among employed workers, both in the … group of trainees and non-trainees. Non-formal training has a non-zero effect on income as well. The determinants of income …
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Student earnings expectations : heterogeneity or noise?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop; Nilsson, William; … - 2016 - First draft 12-05-14; revised 26-01-15; this draft 19-09-2016
Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …
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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …
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Do wage expectations predict college enrollment? : evidence from healthcare
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 141 (2017), pp. 135-150
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - In: Education economics 22 (2014) 5/6, pp. 471-483
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011 - This draft April 28 2011
We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...
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