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Immigrant Earnings Change: The Importance of Australian Schooling.
Will, L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996
It is shown, both theoretically and empirically, that failure to take age at arrival into account leads to some bias in estimates of earnings change with years since migration. In addition, the analysis reveals that results are sensitive to the approach taken to inclusion of information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977266
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Which Factors Determine Academic Performance of Undergraduate Students in Economics? Some Spanish Evidence
Dolado, Juan J.; Morales, Eduardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
less degree of formalism. Moreover, students from public schools are predominant in the lower and upper parts of the grade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498100
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Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, is likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009209828
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385763
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Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365649
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Education and Invention
Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on …. We find a positive effect of engineering education on the propensity to patent, and a negative OLS bias. Our …
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Incentives, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel; Cabrales, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
preferences for sorting across schools. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466350
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Fast Track or Failure: A Study of the Completion Rates of Graduate Students in Economics
Ridder, G; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper presents an analysis of the failure and completion rates of graduate students in economics at three universities in The Netherlands. We find that an indicator of the research productivity of the supervisor is an important determinant of the completion and dropout rates. However, this...
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The Political Economy of Education and Development in an Open Economy
Bourguignon, François; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
sometimes be in its interest to democratize by subsidizing education when the economy is closed, incentives to do so disappear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662307
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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance
Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labour supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666457