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Education and health : the role of cognitive ability
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724642
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Thought for food : understanding educational disparities in food consumption
Koç, Hale; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015
so. In this paper we develop an economic theory of unhealthy food choice, and use a Discrete Choice Experiment to … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492345
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Efficiency of health investment : education or intelligence?
Bijwaard, Govert; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464787
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The impact of later tracking on mortality by parental income in Finland
Ravesteijn, Bastian; Van Kippersluis, Hans; Avendano … - 2017
We investigate whether later educational tracking reduced the intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the gradual rollout of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011614180
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The fast and the studious? : Ramadan observance and student performance
Hanemaaijer, Kyra; Marie, Olivier; Musumeci, Marco - 2023 - This version: April 2023
What are the consequences of religious obligations conflicting with civic duties? We investigate this question by evaluating changes in the performance of practicing Muslim students when end-of-secondary-school exams and Ramadan overlapped in the Netherlands. Using administrative data on exam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249636
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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022 - This version: December 2022
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472300
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Heritability and public policy reconsidered, again
Rietveld, Cornelius A. - 2024
I offer a way out of the Taubman-Goldberger controversy on the public policy (ir)relevance of heritability studies by arguing for a quasi-experimentally controlled comparison of the estimates that these studies provide. If the environments individuals are exposed to are under such control,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014472538
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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the US
Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024
Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014457867
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Female admission cap in higher education : the case of Iran
Hering, Laura; Baiardi, Anna; Namini, Julian Emami - 2021 - This version: July 2021
We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601056
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The short-term effect of the COVID-19 crisis on employment probabilities of labour-market entrants in the Netherlands
Bussink, Henri; Vervliet, Tobias; Weel, Bas ter - 2022
This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two preCOVID-19 cohorts: the 2019 cohort was unexpectedly hit by the COVID-19 crisis about six months after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013185250