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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …
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On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results
Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2006
, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181463
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Education and Industrialization in Prussia: A Reassessment
Edwards, Jeremy - CESifo - 2013
This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann’s recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …
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International Migration of Couples
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2014
We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877818
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542014
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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country: An Optimal Taxation Problem with Moral Hazard
Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2010
work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596586
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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - CESifo - 2013
There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723538
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The Return to College: Selection Bias and Dropout Risk
Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - CESifo - 2014
This paper estimates the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. Motivated by the fact that nearly half of all college students fail to earn a bachelor’s degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea is that students drop out of college mainly because...
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Is a Minimum Wage an Appropriate Instrument for Redistribution?
Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - CESifo - 2014
We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low-skilled workers. A simple condition based on three sufficient...
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