-birth factors (biological parents). The sum of these two effects for adopted children is almost identical to the intergenerational … adoptive parents, but also for their biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large … parental entrepreneurship increases the probability of children's entrepreneurship by about 60%. We further show that for …

validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper …This discussion paper was published in the <I> Economics of Education Review</I> (2012). Vol. 31(5), 515-523.<P> The … of the instrument). The size of the bias is in many cases smaller than the standard error of education’s estimated …

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. …

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. …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995 …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education(i.e. the …

Labor Economics'</A>, 29(4), 859-92.<p>This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents … informative especially for the effect of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for …

on the estimated relationship between educa-tion and income is sizeable. We do so using family background variables and …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 …

measure ‘income’). This is the case even when estimating individual fixed effects of the differential returns to education for …/or whether we use instrumental variables to cope with the endogenous nature of education in income equations. Finally, we find …How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences …

questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2 …) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability, language ability) and social ability affect earnings of … entrepreneurs and employees differently?, and (3) Does the balance in these measured ability levels affect an individual's earnings …

by 3.9% on average. Education enhances entrepreneurs' performance both directly—with a rate of return of 13.7%—and … education on entrepreneurs' performance is estimated to be 3.0–4.6%.<P>This discussion paper has resulted in a publication in …