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Schooling and Parental Death
Gertler, Paul; Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2003
estimate how one human capital investment, school enrollment, is affected by a parent's recent death. We analyze data from 600 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413016
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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 workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average income with all but undergraduate level of...
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New evidence on the effect of time in school on early achievement
Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - EconWPA - 2004
children. To do so it exploits two features of the Dutch schooling system. First, children are allowed to enroll in school on … same class. Together these features generate sufficient exogenous variation in children s potential time in school to … identify its effects on test scores. We find that allowing disadvantaged pupils to start school one month earlier increases …
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Within-the-family education and its impact on equality
Nordblom, Katarina - EconWPA - 2001
This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...
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Does the Choice of University Matter? A Study of the Differences across UK Universites in Life Sciences Students' Degree Performance
Bratti, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2001
inputs commonly used in the literature on school quality. Finally, we compare the unadjusted ranking of universities based on …
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The e ect of financial rewards on students achievement: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Klaauw, Bas van der - EconWPA - 2004
This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing the first year requirements within one year. Participants were assigned to a high, low and zero (control) reward...
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Long Term Effects of Preschool Investment on school Performance and Labor Market Outcome
Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 2003
Using the NLSY data set, this paper formulates and then empirically estimates the production processes for social, motivational and cognitive skills during early childhood development and the long-term effects of these skills on learning and life-time earnings of an individual. Using these...
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Education and Job Market Signalling: A Comment.
Giannini, Massimo - EconWPA - 1997
In this paper the Signalling approach to the explanation of wage differentials is analyzed both under a microeconomic and a macroeconomic viewpoint. Departuring from the classical Spence's model, the introduction of inequalities in accessing to education leads to redistributive effects among...
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Inequality, Coalitions and Collective Action
Bardhan, Pranab K.; Singh, Nirvikar - EconWPA - 2004
In a model where cooperation is beneficial, but subject to cheating, and is supported by trigger strategy punishments in a repeated game, we explore the relationship between the nature of cooperation (size and composition of coalitions) and underlying inequality in the distribution of private...
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Cooperation Breakdowns under Incomplete Property Rights
Tranchant, Jean-Pierre - EconWPA - 2005
In order to analyze conflict and cooperation between a State and a non ruling group in a general equilibrium, I unite pure rent-seeking models and economic models of conflict under an assumption of incomplete property rights. I show that a unique and globally stable Nash equilibrium exists in...
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