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It is a common finding in empirical discrete choice studies that the estimated mean relative values of the coefficients (i.e. WTP's) from multinomial logit (MNL) estimations differ from those calculated using mixed logit estimations, where the mixed logit has the better statistical fit. However,...
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explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health … and Retirement Study reveals that individuals with lower levels of education and cognitive functioning report survival …
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have implications for education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
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The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …
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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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illustrate its feasibility with an example from the education sector in Zambia. …
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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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In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
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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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