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Parental Health and Child Schooling
Bratti, Massimiliano; Mendola, Mariapia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216295
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The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
Gershenson, Seth; Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228300
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Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings
Gensowski, Miriam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth, but how do they realize their full potential? In this paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their education and personality traits. I identify a previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884095
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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments
Eisenhauer, Philipp; Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959620
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Returns to University Quality in Australia: A Two-Stage Analysis
Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study investigates the relationship between university quality and graduate starting salaries using pooled Australian data from the Graduate Destination survey and a two-stage estimation methodology. The results suggest that average starting salaries for young undergraduates differ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959737
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Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?
Chevalier, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper estimates the financial returns to higher education quality in the UK. To account for the selectivity of students to institution, we rely on a selection on observable assumptions. We use several estimates including the Generalised Propensity Score of Hirano and Imbens, which relies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959756
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Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Schooling Reform
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school … leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the National Child Development Study suggest that postponing the school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233733
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Within and Between Gender Disparities in Income and Education Benefits from Democracy
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration of the benefits in subgroups of the population is unknown. In this paper, the question of differential welfare impacts, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233750
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Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap
Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We investigate the degree to which there is under-investment in human capital, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233767
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school).Finally, it was found that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246704