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The Return to a University Education in Great Britain
O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2004
charging students for the costs of their education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261948
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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2012
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only behaviors in the immediate past are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332393
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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011
In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286261
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Peer effects in Austrian schools
Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2005
students' academic outcomes. We used PISA 2000 data to estimate peer effects for 15 and 16 year old students. The estimations …, quantile regressions suggest peer effects to be asymmetric in favor of low-ability students, meaning that students with lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293753
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The Changing Wage Return to an Undergraduate Education
O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2005
Between 1990/91 and 2000/01 the number of male undergraduates in Britain increased by over one-third while the number of female undergraduates has increased nearly twofold. Given this substantial increase in supply we would expect some impact on the wage premium for recent graduates unless...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262655
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Too Many Graduates? An Application of the Gottschalk-Hansen Model to Young British Graduates between 2001-2010
O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2014
There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate mark-ups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398241
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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects:while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290975
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; … - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310748
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Does schooling improve cognitive functioning at older ages?
Schneeweis, Nicole; Skirbekk, Vegard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012
of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, fluency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289891
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; … - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294907