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Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice
Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky...
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The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between … employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …. We use the German Socio-economic Panel and account for the endogeneity of education and non-random selection. The results …
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The Treatment Effect of Attending a High-Quality School and the Influence of Unobservables
Freier, Ronny; Storck, Johanna - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when...
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills during Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Anger, Silke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
transmission effects are virtually unchanged by controlling for childhood environment or parental education, suggesting that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787016
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Expected Future Earnings, Taxation, and University Enrollment: A Microeconometric Model with Uncertainty
Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
-adjusted returns to an academic education increase the probability of university enrollment. Second, high-school graduates are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458428
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Sinkende Bildungsrenditen durch Bildungsreformen?: Evidenz aus Mikrozensus und SOEP
Göggel, Kathrin - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
Die Bildungsreformen der sechziger Jahre sollten das Bildungsniveau der Westdeutschen anheben. Die Analyse der Daten des Mikrozensus weist darauf hin, dass die durch die Bildungsreformen intendierte Bildungsexpansion schon vor 1960 begonnen hat. Mit dem Conditional Mean Independence Ansatz...
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Do Smart Parents Raise Smart Children?: The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Abilities
Anger, Silke; Heineck, Guido - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Complementing prior research on income mobility and educational transmission, we provide evidence on the intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Our estimates suggest that individuals' cognitive skills are positively related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017494
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Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018743
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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood
Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018749
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How Important Is the Family?: Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
. This holds true for brothers and sisters. In Denmark 20 percent of the inequality in permanent earnings can be attributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868114