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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Familienfreundlichkeit der Arbeitswelt viel stärker betont, Bildung endlich zum Top-Thema macht, die Lebensarbeitszeit fair verlängert und … Humankapital, mehr Chancengleichheit im Bildungsbetrieb und ein Abbau von Arbeitsmarktbarrieren für Akteure nichtdeutscher Herkunft … je ein hohes Maß an Eigenverantwortlichkeit des Einzelnen in Bildung, Ausbildung und Beruf und die Bereitschaft, sich …
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This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...
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This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model …
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capital externalities are at work. A large initial share of high-skilled workers significantly reduces subsequent growth of …
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This paper is a preliminary look at the benefits to states in the US of subsidizing college education. The benefits … studies are the external benefits of college education on the earnings of both college graduates and those who have not … graduated from college. In completing a college education individuals earn more. In addition, if there are positive external …
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-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned …
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income, and to calculate certainty equivalent lifetime income at different levels of education. We find that university … education is associated with about a half a million euro increase in discounted lifetime disposable income compared to … with only moderately higher lifetime income compared to compulsory education, and the entire difference is due to …
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We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …
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-quarters of the gaps in age-eight IQ and achievement would be eliminated by the early education program. …
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