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How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2004
little variation in family-background effects across the ability distribution in most countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406421
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The Causal Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling - A Comparison of Estimation Methods
Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - CESifo - 2010
across identification strategies in their ability to make out-of-sample predictions. We conclude that discrepancies in past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727305
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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment - Evidence for German Sons
Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - CESifo - 2014
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948863
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Student Abilities During the Expansion of US Education
Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - CESifo - 2013
The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large … students. We study the impact of these two trends on the composition of school groups by observed ability and the importance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723538
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Ageing and Growth in the Small Open Economy
Heijdra, Ben J.; Romp, Ward E. - CESifo - 2006
We construct an overlapping generations model for the small open economy whichincorporates a realistic description of the mortality process. Agents engage in educational activities at the start of life and thus create human capital to be used later on in life for production purposes. Depending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094204
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Optimal Education with Mobile Capital. An OLG Approach (new title: Optimal Public Education under Capital Mobility)
Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - CESifo - 2000
education with and without capital markets integration. First, we explore how regimes of education provision - public, private …-run effects of capital markets integration, in equilibrium, on the optimal provision of education and growth. Third, we examine a … competition game where countries compete in the provision of public education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094431
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Social Security Incentives and Human Capital Investment
Lau, Morten I.; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2001
While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these systems on individuals’ incentives to invest in their human capital has not been analyzed. We integrate human capital investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181353
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Human Capital Accumulation and the Macroeconomy in an Ageing Society
Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - CESifo - 2012
How do population ageing shocks affect the long-run macroeconomic performance of an economy? To answer this question we build a general equilibrium overlapping generations model of a closed economy featuring endogenous factor prices. Finitely-lived individuals are endowed with perfect foresight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877922
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Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy
Wildasin, David E. - CESifo - 2014
Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877955
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Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects
Dawid, Herbert; Mühlheusser, Gerd - CESifo - 2012
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542014