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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
Cattaneo, Alejandra; Lalive, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or parents learn from other parents about the ability of their children. Identification is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791928
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Keeping it Simple: Financial Literacy and Rules of Thumb
Drexler, Alejandro; Fischer, Greg; Schoar, Antoinette S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Individuals and business owners engage in an increasingly complex array of financial decisions that are critical for their success and well-being. Yet a growing literature documents that in both developed and developing countries, a large fraction of the population is unprepared to make these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611017
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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...
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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...
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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
We study a model where student eort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. We can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside options will...
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...
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