Similar Search Results

Relative Age Effect on European Adolescents' Social Network

Fumarco, Luca - 2018

We contribute to the literature on relative age effects on pupils' (non-cognitive) skills formation by studying students' social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children survey and use an instrumental variables approach to account for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906500

Health Risk Factors Among the Older European Populations : Personal and Country Effects

García-Muñoz, Teresa - 2014

2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045071

Relative age effect on European adolescents' social network

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150711

Younger and dissatisfied? : relative age and life-satisfaction in adolescence

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018

This is the first study to investigate whether age gaps between classmates (that is, relative age) affect life-satisfaction gaps in adolescence. To this end, we analyse data from the multi-country Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) survey. We find evidence that relative age...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150723

Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe

Heckman, James J. - 2010

Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149275

Micro and Macro Determinants of Health : Older Immigrants in Europe

Constant, Amelie F. - 2015

We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030713

Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa - 2012

sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109434

Bias corrected estimates of GED returns

Heckman, James J.; LaFontaine, Paul A. - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287766

Taking the easy way out : how the GED testing program induces students to drop out

Heckman, James J.; LaFontaine, Paul A.; Rodriguez, Pedro L. - 2008

"We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a six point decrease in GED pass rates induces a 1.3...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725072

Human capital policy

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J. - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001738725