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The ABC of Housing Strategies: Are Housing Assistance Programs Effective in Enhancing Children's Well Being?
Rosero, Jose - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This paper examines the effect of a housing assistance program on school enrollment, child labor and poverty reduction among poor families in Ecuador. Administrative data is merged to a household panel to link the history of a voucher application with socioeconomic information. Two empirical...
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors
Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
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Capital Market Failure, Adverse Selection and Equity Financing of Higher Education
Jacobs, Bas; Wijnbergen, Sweder J.G. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
We apply theories of capital market failure to ana1yzeoptima1 financing of risky higher education. In the market solution,students can only finance their education through debt. There isunderinvestment in human capita1, because some students with socia1lyprofitable investments in human capita1...
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Determinants of the Regional Demand for Higher Education
Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
Studies on the determinants of the demand for higher education typically emphasizethe relevance of socio-economic factors, but leave the spatial dimensions of the prospectivestudents’ university choices largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the determinantsof university entrance...
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Is Earnings Uncertainty Relevant for Educational Choice? An Empirical Analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...
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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Huber, Laura Rosendahl; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'The European Economic Review, 2014, 72(11), pages 76-97.<P> The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship...</p>
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Diffusion of a Social Norm: Tracing the Emergence of the Housewife in the Netherlands, 1812-1922
Poppel, Frans W.A. van; Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Walhout, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
The emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands over the period 1812-1922 was strongly influenced by the social norm that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected in the emergence of the housewife among the lower...
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Do Floods have Permanent Effects? Evidence from the Netherlands
Husby, Trond G.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Hofkes, Marjan W.; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This study investigates the short- and long-run impact on population dynamics of the major flood in the Netherlands in 1953. A dynamic difference-in-differences analysis reveals that the flood had an immediate negative impact on population growth, but limited long term effects. In contrast, the...
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On the Effectiveness of Child Care Centers in Promoting Child Development in Ecuador
Rosero, Jose - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
have concluded that the provision of these services are beneficial to enhance the development of poor children at early … reduced health outcomes of children. The results are in line with the ones found in (Rosero and Oosterbeek, 2011) and support … the existence of a trade-off between children development and labor market participation that should be considered at the …
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Gender Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ewijk, Reyn van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Economics of Education Review</I>. Volume 38, pages 51-63.<P> Recent studies for primary and secondary education find positive effects of the share of girls in the classroom on achievement of boys and girls. This study examines whether these results can...</p></i>
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