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Determinants of the Regional Demand for Higher Education

Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

-economic factors, but leave the spatial dimensions of the prospective students’ university choices largely unexplored. In this study … region for first-year students with regional and university characteristics in a production-constrained gravity model. The … main finding of the study is that the behaviour of prospective students is governed by a negative distance deterrence …

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Does Accessibility to Higher Education matter? Choice Behavior of High School Graduates in the Netherlands

Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

confirm the paramount influence of the student’s track record and talent. The results, however, also show that geographical …

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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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Earnings Risk and Demand for Higher Education

Hartog, Joop; Serrano, Luis Diaz - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...

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Friendship Relations in the School Class and Adult Economic Attainment

Galeotti, Andrea; Müller, Gerrit - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

We analyze the impact of adolescents' friendship relations in their final-year class of high school on subsequent labor market success. Based on a typology of network positions we locate each student within the social system of the school class as either: an isolate, a sycophant, a broker or a...

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Do Stepping Stone Jobs exist? Early Career Paths in the Medical Profession

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have to enrol in a training program which is in …

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

Hoop, Jacobus de - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

Malawi's tracking program raises school participation of top students without a reduction in pupil learning. These findings …

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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...

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Capital Market Failure, Adverse Selection and Equity Financing of Higher Education

Jacobs, Bas; Wijnbergen, Sweder J.G. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

We apply theories of capital market failure to ana1yze

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Are Workers with A Long Commute Less Productive? An Empirical Analysis of Absenteeism

Ommeren, Jos van; Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker’s productivity, by examining whether the commute has a positive effect on worker’s absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance induces absenteeism with an elasticity of about...

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