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How to select Instruments supporting R&D and Innovation by Industry

Heide, Marcel J.L. de; Kothiyal, Amit - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We present a theoretical framework which allows for the comparison of the effectiveness of tax measures, loans and funding, in supporting industry-oriented research. We estimate for each of the instruments the exact contribution required by a firm to decide on investing in R&D, given the costs...

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Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?

Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Institute

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …

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School Choice and Competition

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …

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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance

Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?

Lundborg, Petter - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …

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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence …

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Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device?

Dur, Robert A.J.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This discussion paper has resulted in ch. 4 of <A href="http://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=edksC0nRPZYC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=allesintitel:+%22Labor+Market+Institutions+and+Public+Regulation%22&ots=-umxBkjdnT&sig=oeFDTjhnSeo-w-4nuTjTJpuaUr8#v=onepage&q=&f=false">'Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation'</A>, pp. 123-61, (Jonas Agell, Michael Keen, Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.)), 2004, MIT Press, 228 p.

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Birth Order, Family Size and Educational Attainment

Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

, by examining the relation with years of education for different family sizes separately; this avoids the problem that …

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How Risky is Investment in Human Capital?

Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

positively skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient of variation of about 0.3, comparable …

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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation

Janssens, Wendy - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...

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