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The causal effect of education on health : what is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011
effect of education on health, depending on gender. -- health ; education ; health behaviors ; Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380445
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More schooling, more children : compulsory schooling reforms and fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009427299
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Does schooling improve cognitive functioning at older ages?
Schneeweis, Nicole; Skirbekk, Vegard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012
of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, fluency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656615
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More Schooling, More Children? Compulsory Schooling and Fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole E.; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2021
Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315564
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Should we increase instruction time in low achieving schools? : evidence from Southern Italy
Battistin, Erich; Meroni, Elena Claudia - 2013
This paper investigates the short term effects of a large scale intervention, funded by the European Social Fund, that provides additional instruction time to students in low achieving lower secondary schools of Southern Italy. We control for sorting across classes using the fact that freshman...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754619