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Birth Order, Family Size and Educational Attainment
Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
, by examining the relation with years of education for different family sizes separately; this avoids the problem that …
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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis
Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/full/10.1086/660798">'The Journal of Labor Economics'</A>, 29(4), 859-92.<p>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...</p></a>
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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
1, pages 23-33.<P> Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of … countries and the US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive … education, the greater the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are …
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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 Instituut - 2010
See also 'Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous?' in <I>Entrepreneurship Research Journal</I> (2012), 2 …(3), 1-27.<P> Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however … (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether …
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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 Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper was published in the <I> Economics of Education Review</I> (2012). Vol. 31(5), 515-523.<P> The … validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper … of the instrument). The size of the bias is in many cases smaller than the standard error of education’s estimated …
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