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Bun, Maurice J.G.; Klaassen, Franc J.G.M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

-effect directly from data that include EMU observations. Using a dynamic panel model for annual bilateral exports, we find that the …

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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling provide Earnings Insurance?

Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We … college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …

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The Value of an Educated Population for an Individual's Entrepreneurship Success

Millan, Jose Maria; Congregado, Emilio; Roman, Concepcion; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship …. The value of other input factors, such as (knowledge) capital and labor is likely to be affected by the education level of … the possible stakeholders in the entrepreneur’s venture. The education distribution of the (local) population may thus …

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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …

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Selective Secondary Education and School Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi

Hoop, Jacobus de - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

have implications for education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …

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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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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle

Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...

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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … (perfect validity of the instrument). The size of the bias is in many cases smaller than the standard error of education …

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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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