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Dynamic complementarity in skill production : evidence from genetic endowments and birth order

Muslimova, Dilnoza; Van Kippersluis, Hans; Rietveld, … - 2020

The birth order literature emphasizes the role of parental investments in explaining why firstborns have higher human capital outcomes than their laterborn siblings. We use birth order as a proxy for investments and interact it with genetic endowments. Exploiting only within-family variation in...

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The impact of family background on educational attainment in Dutch birth cohorts 1966-1995

Atav, Tilbe; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2023

,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children …

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Determinants of the regional demand for higher education

Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2003

Studies on the determinants of the demand for higher education typically emphasizethe relevance of socio-economic factors, but leave the spatial dimensions of the prospectivestudents’ university choices largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the determinantsof university entrance...

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Earnings risk and demand for higher education

Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002

We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...

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Earnings risk and demand for higher education - a cross-section test for Spain

Hartog, Joop; Diaz Serrano, Luis - 2002

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Educational choice, initial wage and wage growth

Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van - 2020

We investigate the major choice of college graduates where we make choice dependent on expected initial wages and expected wage growth per major. We build a model that allows us to estimate these factors semiparametrically and that corrects for selection bias. We estimate the model on the...

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Less school (costs), more (female) education? : lessons from Egypt reducing years of compulsory schooling

Elsayed, Ahmed; Marie, Olivier - 2020

Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged...

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The effect of Sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation

Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015 - This version: May 2015

outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … different way. Men with brothers earn more and are more likely to get married and have children than men with sisters. Women …

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Early life circumstances and life cycle labor market outcomes

Flores, Manuel; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2015

We investigate how early life circumstances - childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) - are associated with labor market outcomes over an individualś entire life cycle. A life cycle approach provides insights not only into which labor market outcomes are associated with adverse...

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Prolonged worklife among grandfathers : spillover effects on grandchildren's educational outcomes

Been, Jim; Gielen, Anne C.; Knoef, Marike; Moroni, Gloria - 2022

Recent policies aiming to prolong worklives have increased older males' labor supply. Yet, little is known about their intergenerational effects. Using unique Dutch administrative data covering three consecutive generations, this paper studies the impact of increased grandfathers' labor supply...

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