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Journal of Economics"</A>, 112(3), 618-39.<P>The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per …. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data …
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relationship between agglomeration externalities and the level of education. While the positive relationship between economic … relationship between density and productivity for workers with different types of education. Apart from estimating the impact of … aggregate density, we also estimate whether the composition of the local labor market in terms of education is related to the …
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, by examining the relation with years of education for different family sizes separately; this avoids the problem that …
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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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skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …
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College education is not only an investment; for many people it also generates consumption benefits. If these benefits … students, even when the colleges lack market power. Moreover, when the social return to education exceeds the private return …
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likely to be indirect than direct.This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Economics of Education Review' (30 …
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This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <A HREF="http://www.dovepress.com/condom-use-risk-perception-and-hiv-knowledge-a-comparison-across-sexes-peer-reviewed-article-HIV">'HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care'</A>, 2013, 5, 283-293.<P> We analyze how HIV-knowledge influences condom use across the sexes. The empirical work is based on a household survey conducted among 1,979 households of a representative group of...</p></a>
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In this paper we employ techniques developed in spatial econometrics to analyse spatial patterns of technology diffusion, to detect clusters and to estimate theoretical models that incorporate space explicitly. These techniques correct for misspecifications resulting from the omission of spatial...
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Contemporary migration studies witness an increasing interest in the socio-economicrole of networks of migrants. Such networks are sometimes even regarded as the mostimportant attraction and location factors for migration, and may even exceed purelyeconomic factors like unemployment and wage...
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