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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...

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Changing returns to education in Portugal during the 1980s and early 1990s : OLS and quantile regression estimators

Hartog, Joop; Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Vieira, José … - 1999

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Comparing the returns to education for entrepreneurs and employees

Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2004

The returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs, unlike for employees, have not yet been estimated by methods coping with the potential endogeneity problem. We estimate the RTE for entrepreneurs and employees while testing for and coping with this problem. Our results derived from a large US...

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How risky is investment in human capital?

Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - 2004

The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess thevariance in the rate of return by surveying the international empirical literature from this freshperspective and by simulating risky earnings profiles in alternative options. choosingparameters on basis of the very...

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Labor market prospects, search intensity and the transition from college to work

Klaauw, Bas van der; Vuuren, Aico van; Berkhout, Peter - 2004

In this paper we develop a structural model for job search behavior of students entering the labor market. The model includes endogenous search effort and on-the-job search. Since students usually do not start a regular job before graduation but start job search earlier, our model is non...

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A new approach to estimate the wage returns to work-related training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2002

This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training.The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration theworkers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some randomevent. The point estimate of the return to...

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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions : a Bayesian analysis

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Jörn; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: July 2010

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...

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The impact of trade liberalization on the return to education in Vietnam : wage versus employment effect

Oostendorp, Remco H.; Doan Hong Quang - 2010

. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … trade liberalization on the return to education taking into account both changes in wages and employment. The results show …

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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China

Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011 - This draft April 28 2011

We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...

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A new approach to estimate the wage returns to work-related training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001732745