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Schooling and Parental Death
Gertler, Paul; Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2003
Loss of a parent is one of the most traumatic events a child can face. If loss of a parent reduces investments in children, it can also have long-lasting implications. This study uses parametric and semi-nonparametric matching techniques to estimate how one human capital investment, school...
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What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers
Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - EconWPA - 2004
Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs … have lower incomes. We also analyze those who changed careers. Those with higher level of education are more likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556770
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Financial Education and Savings Outcomes in Individual Development Accounts
Clancy, Margaret; Grinstein-Weiss, Michal; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
matches rather than through tax breaks, and require participants to attend financial education. Participants accrue matches as … withdrawals typically include home purchase, post-secondary education, and microenterprise. The purpose of this study is to … examine the relationship between the hours of financial education attended by IDA participants and savings outcomes. The data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134602
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Is Investing College Education Risky?
Chen, Stacey H. - EconWPA - 2002
talented young people still hesitate to attend college. This puzzle motivates this paper to test for whether college education … earnings risk from transitory earnings risks. Evidence indicates that investing in a four-year college education is indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076547
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Statistical Inference of a Bivariate Proportional Hazard Model with Grouped Data
An, Mark Yuying - EconWPA - 1996
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Universitary Financing and Welfare: A Dynamic Analysis with Heterogeneous Agents and Overlapping Generations
Sanchez, Juan M. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper develops a model in which it is possible to evaluate alternatives of human capital financing. The alternative systems under discussion are: total feeing; graduates taxes and uniform taxes (this can be associated to the scheme presently used in the Argentina universitary system)....
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Child Labor and Fertility
Schrepler, Ramona - EconWPA - 2003
This essay analyzes the economic causes and effects of household decisions concerning fertility, education and child …
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Qualitative Efficiency Assessment of Markets: An Institutional Approach to Training
Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 2004
We investigate the effect of institutions on efficiency of training markets. After setting up a theoretical institutional framework that shows how institutions affect efficiency, we apply this framework to the real world. An empirical analysis of institutions affecting training markets will...
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College Characteristics and the Wages of Young Women
Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996
Using the rich data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we show that several dimensions of college quality have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women...
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College Quality and the Wages of Young Men
Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996
Using the rich data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we show that several dimensions of college quality have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative specifications. Controlling for ability reveals that sorting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125048