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Efficiency of Health Investment: Education or Intelligence?

Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … COPD, education still plays a role. …

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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education(i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …

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Thought for Food: Understanding Educational Disparities in Food Consumption

Koç, Hale; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … theoretical prediction that part of the education differences across health behaviours is driven by the "marginal value of health …" rising with education. …

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Growth and Inequality: A Meta-Analysis

Dominicis, Laura de; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

considerable difficulties in the Dutch labour market. The most remarkable conclusion is the irrelevance of education for socio …

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Education, Growth and Income Inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the …-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

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Social Networks and Labor Market Inequality between Ethnicities and Races

Toomet, Ott; Leij, Marco van der; Rolfe, Meredith - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A HREF="http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9148929&fileId=S2050124213000209">'Network Science'</A>, 2014, 96(5), 936-948.<P> This paper analyzes the relationship between unexplained racial/ethnic wage differentials on the one hand and social network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our...</p></a>

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Migration and Immigrants: The Case of the Netherlands

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

This paper surveys migration to and from the Netherlands since thesixteenth century with an emphasis on the post-war period. Existingstudies on the labour market performance of immigrants and ethnicminorities are considered and some new results from our recentresearch are presented.<P> See also...</p>

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Language Proficiency of Migrants: The Relation with Job Satisfaction and Skill Matching

Bloemen, Hans G. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

satisfaction. We use subjective survey information about job satisfaction and the fit between the migrant's education and skill …

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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

What drives stated preferences about the number of foreigners? Is it self-interest as stressed by the political economy of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with the preference for the aggregate population size? In...

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