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Estimating and Testing a Quantile Regression Model with Interactive Effects
Harding, Matthew; Lamarche, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper proposes a quantile regression estimator for a panel data model with interactive effects potentially correlated with the independent variables. We provide conditions under which the slope parameter estimator is asymptotically Gaussian. Monte Carlo studies are carried out to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754116
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Africa’s Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support these claims at the micro level. In this study,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822041
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Count Your Hours: Returns to Education in Poland
Myck, Michal; Nicinska, Anna; Morawski, Leszek - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
.7% and for women from 8.0% to 13.4% when we compare results using net monthly wages without correcting for labor market … demographics as exclusion restrictions seems to be the "second best" in the case of the wage equation estimation for women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029650
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Smoking, Discount Rates, and Returns to Education
Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 as an instrument for schooling in order to cope with ability bias in a returns to education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700985
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Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education
Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household income, is used as an instrument for attained education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761664
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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325427
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Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … Italian working women using administrative data. We exploit a reform that introduced in 1990 costs for dismissals unmotivated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552955
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The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of their Children: Evidence for Europe
Navarro Paniagua, Maria; Walker, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593200
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New Evidence on the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Angrist, Josh; Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analía - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566330
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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis T.; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility influenced by the implementation of population control policies are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791517