Similar Search Results

Growing richer and taller: Explaining Change in the Distribution of Child Nutritional Status during Vietnam’s Economic Boom

O'Donnell, Owen; Nicolás, Ángel López; Doorslaer, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Over a five-year period in the 1990s Vietnam experienced annual economic growth of more than 8% and a decrease of 15 points in the proportion of children chronically malnourished (stunted). We estimate the extent to which changes in the distribution of child nutritional status can be explained...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137050

Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments

Albrecht, James; Vuuren, Aico van; Vroman, Susan - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

full time do work full time. We find that about two-thirds of this selection is due to observables such as education and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137387

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016254

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144456

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144501

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795566

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513229

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.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136877

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136912

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136960