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Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

The article is forthcoming in <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VFD-4PNM471-3&_user=499884&_coverDate=09%2F15%2F2007&_alid=770199288&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_cdi=6008&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=1&_acct=C000024499&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=499884&md5=8492c97b78d795d5deec06a94b66422d">Labour Economics</A>.<p><P>

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Spatial Patterns of Technology Diffusion: An Empirical Analysis using TFP

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

In this paper we employ techniques developed in spatial econometrics to analyse spatial patterns of technology diffusion, to detect clusters and to estimate theoretical models that incorporate space explicitly. These techniques correct for misspecifications resulting from the omission of spatial...

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Birth Order, Family Size and Educational Attainment

Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper investigates the effect of sibship size and birth order on educational attainment, for the United States and the Netherlands. An instrumental variables approach is used to identify the effect of sibship size. Instruments for the number of children are twins at last birth and the sex...

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How Risky is Investment in Human Capital?

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

The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess the variance in the rate of return by surveying the international empirical literature from this fresh perspective and by simulating risky earnings profiles in alternative options. choosing parameters on basis of the very...

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Effects of Ethnic Geographical Clustering on Educational Attainment in the Netherlands

Graaff, Thomas de; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

Contemporary migration studies witness an increasing interest in the socio-economic

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...

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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis

Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We start with making no assumptions and then add...

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The Consequences of Implementing a Child Care Voucher: Evidence from Australia, The Netherlands and USA

Warner, Mildred E.; Gradus, Raymond - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

In the Netherlands, the USA and Australia public funding has promoted parental choice by introducing a voucher for child care, where parents are free to choose the provider. The policy experiments in these three countries and the outcomes provide useful information about the consequences of...

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Same Work, Lower Grade? Student Ethnicity and Teachers’ Subjective Assessments

Ewijk, Reyn van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

teachers. Why this is the case was unclear. This paper focuses on one important potential explanation: I examine whether ethnic … majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the … existence of such a direct grading bias. I do find indirect evidence for alternative explanations: teachers report lower …

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Gender Differences, HIV Risk Perception and Condom Use

Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Willebrands, Daan - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We analyze how HIV-knowledge influences condom use across the sexes. The empirical work is based on a household survey conducted among 1,979 households of a representative group of market persons in Lagos in 2008. Last-time-condom-use is analyzed based on a Probit model while correcting for...

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