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Parental income and children’s well-being and future success : an analysis of the SIPP matched to SSA earnings data

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It's the opportunity cost, stupid! : how self-employment responds to financial incentives of return, risk and skew

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011

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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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