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We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred … homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We allow endogenous schooling attainments to affect the level of risk … experienced in labor market earnings through wage dispersion and employment rate dispersion. We find a low degree of relative risk …
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Causation between time series is a most important topic in econometrics, financial engineering, biological and psychological sciences, and many other fields. A new setting is introduced for examining this rather abstract concept. The corresponding calculations, which are much easier than those...
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determined by education and pollution. The government can implement a tax on pollution and recycle the revenue in public … pollution abatement and/or education subsidy (influencing green behaviors). When agent's preferences for the environment are … the tax revenue is well allocated between education and direct environmental protection. …
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This paper analyzes the relationships between HIV/AIDS and education taking into account the appropriative nature of … child income. We first build a simple theoretical model linking parental health risk, educational choice and appropriation …
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mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …
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When one's treatment status affects the outcomes of others, experimental data are not sufficient to identify a treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate and validate the model on experimental data collected for...
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Empirical evidence that access to higher education is constrained by credit availability is limited and usually … matched individual data from both a credit institution (Eduloan) and the Department of Education. Based on a regression … education by more than 20 percentage points in a population of student loan applicants. …
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. Descriptive statistics show a continuous spread of education that has accelerated in the second half of the twentieth century. We …
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This paper examines the existence of convergence and the importance of education on carbon dioxide growth per capita … education is not a factor in carbon dioxide emissions growth. Contrary to commonly held beliefs based on intuition, we provide … evidence that, in developing countries, there is no convergence, and that education is not a factor in carbon dioxide growth …
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norm in education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses … necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development …
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